Pingu is a British-Swiss claymation children's television series created by Otmar Gutmann and produced from 1990 to 2000 by The Pygos Group (formerly Trickfilmstudio and Pingu Filmstudio), and from 2003 to 2006 by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. It centres on a family of anthropomorphic penguins who live at the South Pole, and the main character is the family's son and title character, Pingu.

The series originally ran for four series (each series is made up of multiple seasons) from 7 March 1990 to 9 April 2000 on SF DRS and CBBC. 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 first aired on Swiss television in 1986 and was later shown at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[1][2]

Nearly all the dialogue in the series is in an invented grammelot "penguin language" referred to as 'Penguinese',[3] 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,[4] accompanied by turning his beak into a megaphone-like shape.[5] 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 Osvaldo Cavandoli's earlier series La Linea. In series 5 and 6, the Pingu cast was jointly voiced by David Sant and Marcello Magni.[5]

A Japanese reboot of the series, titled Pingu in the City, began airing on NHK-E on 7 October 2017.

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