Pingu

Pingu is a Swiss-British stop motion children’s series co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann, It was originally produced from 1990 to 2000 for Swiss television by Trickfilmstudio (later renamed Pingu Filmstudio) for SF DRS in Switzerland and ZDF in Germany, and was distributed by Editoy AG (later renamed Pingu BV, and then The Pygos Group). It was later revived from 2003 to 2006 for British television channel CBeebies by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series focuses on a family of anthropomorphic emperor penguins who live in 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 in 2005. The pilot episode was made on 28 May 1986.