It revolves around the lives of Peep, Chirp, and Quack, as viewers discover, investigate, and explore the world around them.

The series premiered on April 12, 2004, on Discovery Kids and on TLC as part of their Ready Set Learn!

The animation consists of bright colors and simple shapes, which simulates and reflects a youthful art style.

Music for Peep and the Big Wide World is composed by Terry Tompkins and Steve D'Angelo, from Eggplant.

[15] Peep and the Big Wide World was originally broadcast on TLC and Discovery Kids — the latter as part of the Ready Set Learn!

The broadcast of the series ended on December 26, 2021, when it was replaced with reruns of Dinosaur Train to the 7:30 a.m. weekend morning timeslot.

[18] APT and PBS Kids broadcasts of Peep and the Big Wide World were paired with a short episode from Pocoyo which aired immediately after each show from 2010 to 2021.

In 2017, WGBH released PEEP and the Big Wide World: Weather Factors, a media gallery in PBS LearningMedia's Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms project.