Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You may have missed the obscure news that Netflix handed out a million-dollar prize to some of its fans this week. I mention it because the prize was for ...

Famous claymation studio Aardman Animations is helping make the project, which is amazing considering how big of a Shaun the Sheep fan I am. Seriously, he is my profile picture on everything. Other ...

UK kids' producer-distributor Hit Entertainment has paid £15.9m for the rights to the BBC children's penguin character Pingu. Created by Sybylle von Flue, Pingu has appeared in numerous cartoon books, ...

Mattel, the toy and family entertainment company, and Aardman, the celebrated animation studio behind the likes of Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit, are partering to co-develop a new ...

Noot Noot! A new Pingu animated series is in the works at Aardman and Mattel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The upcoming project that will mark the return of the popular titular character will ...

Remember Pingu? The kids claymation program that was on TV years ago, where the lovable penguin Pingu went out his daily life eating fish and getting yelled at by his dad? Thanks to the work of one ...

CHILDREN'S favourite Pingu, the playful penguin character, is to be bought by entertainment firm Hit in a £15.9m deal. Hit Entertainment, which is also behind Bob the Builder and Barney the Dinosaur, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

PINGU actor Carlo Bonomi – the iconic voice behind the beloved children’s TV character who invented the “noot noot” catchphrase – has died aged 85. Bonomi was the voice of the cartoon animal from its ...

Children's entertainment producer Hit Entertainment puts Pingu on You Tube to promote the penguin's bid for the Christmas number one. Loved by children and adults alike, animated TV character Pingu is ...

Mattel has partnered with Aardman to develop a new stop-motion and 3D animated series featuring the penguin Pingu. Inspired by Mattel’s charming and mischievous young penguin that often finds himself ...