As part of its summer lineup, PBS Kids has revealed the premiere dates of its new film and show Brambletown and Lyla in the Loop respectively.
Premiering on 26 July 2024, Brambletown is an original, animated 35-minute film from well-known children’s musicians and Grammy Award winners The Okee Dokee Brothers. The short film explores the themes of connection and belonging within ourselves, with each other, and with nature. It portrays the core message that taking care of ourselves and our relationships is part of taking care of the world. Through its music and story, the film provides children and grown-ups a safe on-ramp for talking and singing about some of life’s challenges with hope, honesty, and optimism.
The film tells the story of Fox and Badger, two lifelong friends who return to their childhood home of Brambletown, only to find that things have changed. As they grow apart, experience new hurts, and navigate major disruption to their forest community, Fox and Badger learn that even in the darkest moments, they still have the power to heal.
It is a narrative visual album that uses stop-motion construction paper style animation. The story is inspired by the real-life, life-long friends The Okee Dokee Brothers, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing.
Premiering on PBS Kids shortly thereafter are new episodes of Lyla in the Loop on 5 August. Crafted by Pipeline Studios, kids and families can join Lyla, Stu, and the whole Loops crew as they problem-solve their way through more Looptastic shenanigans. Their latest adventures will have the characters travelling to new locations and meeting a new character, Ale, a seven-year-old Cuban girl with a sense of wonder.