Pingu

Pingu is a stop-motion children's series created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It was originally produced from 1990 to 2000 for Swiss television by Trickfilmstudio (later renamed Pingu BV) for the SF DRS channel in Switzerland. It was later revived from 2003 to 2006 for British television by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series focuses on a family of anthropomorphic emperor penguins who live at the South Pole; the main character is the family's son and title character, Pingu.
The series originally ran for four series from 7 March 1990 to 9 April 2000 on SF DRS. It was then renewed for two more series from 1 August 2003 to 3 March 2006 on CBeebies. Pingu was also nominated for a BAFTA award. The Pingu pilot episode was made on 28 May 1986.
Pingu was very popular, due to its lack of a real spoken language: nearly all dialogue is in an invented grammelot "penguin language" referred to as 'Penguinese', consisting of babbling, muttering, and the titular character's characteristic sporadic loud honking noise, which can be popularly recognized as "Noot noot!" or other variants, stated to be "Noo, Noo!" by the defunct Pingu website's trivia page, accompanied by turning his beak into a megaphone-like shape. Within the first 4 series, all the characters were performed by Italian voice actor Carlo Bonomi, using a language of noises that he had already developed and used for the earlier Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Linea. In series 5 and 6, the Pingu cast was jointly voiced by David Sant and Marcello Magni.
A Japanese revival of the series, titled Pingu in the City, began airing on NHK-E on 7 October 2017 to 30 March 2019. Pingu in the City later aired in the United Kingdom on ITVBe's kids block known as LittleBe.
== Episodes/Songs featured on Pennsburg Kids home media releases ==
* Pingu's Lavatory Story
* Pingu's Outing
* Pingu's Family Celebrate Christmas
* Pingu’s Bedtime Shadows
* Hide and Seek
*Pingu’s Moon Adventure
* Wedding Waltz
*Pingu at the Doctor's
* School Time
* Pingu's Parents Go to A Concert
* Electro Dance
* Pingu and the Ghost
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