Lyla in the Loop


Lyla in the Loop is a children's animated television series created by Dave Peth. It premiered on February 5, 2024, on PBS Kids. The series is produced by Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios using 2D software. The series also has a podcast called Lyla’s Loopcast which premiered on May 8, 2025.

Premise

The series centers on Lyla Loops, her sidekick Stu, and the rest of the Loops family. The other Loops family members include Luke Loops, Liana Loops and Louisa Loops, Lydia Loops and Louis Loops.
Lyla's family runs a local diner named Loops Lunch. According to Lyla, each adventure will introduce and explore foundational computational thinking concepts, leading to some comedic disasters and creative solutions, while helping others in their community.

Characters

Main

  • Lyla Loops : Lyla is a young Jamaican-American girl. She is 7 years old. She lives with her younger brother Luke, her sidekick Stu, her older sisters Liana and Louisa, her mother Lydia and her father Louis.
  • Stu : Stu is a fuzzy blue hyrax-like alien and Lyla's sidekick whom Lyla named in the episode "When We Met Stu".
  • Luke Loops : Luke is Lyla's younger brother. He is 5 years old.
  • Liana Loops : Liana is Lyla's older twin sister. She is 12 years old.
  • Louisa Loops : Louisa is Lyla's other older twin sister. She has the same age as Liana.
  • Lydia Loops : Lydia is Lyla's mother and Louis' wife. She is 40 years old.
  • Louis Loops : Louis is Lyla's father and Lydia's husband. He is 38 years old.

    Recurring

  • Everett Phan : Everett is Lyla's best friend of Vietnamese descent. He is 7 years old.
  • Thi Phan : Thi is Everett's mother. She has the same age as Lydia, and lives across the hall. She works at Phan's Hardware Store. She calls Everett "Evvy".
  • Kibbles Phan: Kibbles is Everett and Thi's pet cat. She lives with Everett and Thi.
  • Alejandra "Ale" Alvarez : Ale is Lyla and Everett's new friend of Hispanic descent. She is 7 years old.
  • Carlos Alvarez : Carlos is Ale's older brother who likes to tap dance.
  • Santiago Alvarez : Santiago is Ale's father.
  • Jia : Jia is a woman who works as an employee at Loops Lunch.
  • Emmaline : Emmaline is Lyla and Stu's friend.
  • Bidzill : Bidzill is a skateboarder.

    Development

The series was greenlit in October 2020, under the working title of Liza Loops, and was developed as part of a $24 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
However, on January 16, 2023, during the Television Critics Association Press Tour, it was announced that PBS Kids would begin its production on the series, now titled Lyla in the Loop.

Episodes

Series overview

Huy Tran directs every episode.

Soundtrack

The theme song in the show is performed by students at Fanny Jackson Coppin School in Philadelphia.
Original songs are performed by the characters in some episodes.

Broadcast

Lyla in the Loop premiered on February 5, 2024, on PBS Kids.
Each episode features two 11-minute stories, plus interstitial content. The interstitial content in between the two 11-minute stories in each episode feature Lyla and her family doing either steps to play or do something or singing a song.