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 ...

A new stop-motion, 3D animated Pingu series is in the works from Aardman Animations and Mattel. While a release date has yet to be set, the new series is reportedly "inspired" by the beloved ...

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, ...

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 ...

Pingu the Penguin is to join Barney the Dinosaur and Bob the Builder in the stable of children's characters owned by Hit Entertainment. The rights and animation company revealed the acquisition of the ...

Pingu voice actor Carlo Bonomi has died at the age of 85, it has been confirmed (Picture: YouTube/HIT Entertainment) The man who brought Pingu to life has died at the age of 85m, it has been confirmed ...

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 ...

Children's character licensing group HIT Entertainment has paid £15.9m for rights to Pingu, the pre-school children's character. The proposed deal will see HIT pay £13.8m to the Pingu company and ...