Series 23

The twenty-third season of Thomas & Friends  will be released in 2019 on Milkshake!, Nick Jr., ABC Kids and Treehouse.

Production
Season 23 will be the second series of ''Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!''. The series will once again see Thomas journeying around the world and back home on Sodor with his friends, James, Percy, Nia, Gordon, Rebecca and Emily.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Rosie
 * Ashima
 * Rajiv
 * Shane
 * Yong Bao
 * Gina
 * Hong-Mei
 * The Chinese Diesel
 * Shankar
 * Noor Jehan
 * Tamika
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Henrietta
 * An An and Yin-Long
 * Aubrey and Aiden
 * Jack
 * Alfie
 * Oliver (excavator)
 * Max and Monty
 * Kevin
 * Ace
 * Isla
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Charubala

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe
 * Stefano

Locations

 * Island of Sodor
 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Knapford
 * Vicarstown
 * China
 * India
 * Australia
 * Italy

UK, AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rob Rackstraw as James and Toby
 * Nigel Pilkington as Percy
 * Teresa Gallagher as Emily, Annie and Clarabel
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Isla
 * Nicola Stapleton as Rosie
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * Chipo Chung as Hong-Mei
 * Su-Lin Looi as the Chinese Diesel
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * Steven Kynman as Jack
 * Nathan Clarke as Alfie
 * Tim Whitnall as Oliver the Excavator and Max
 * Rasmus Hardiker as Monty
 * Matt Wilkinson as Kevin
 * Peter Andre as Ace

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon, Max and Kevin
 * Rob Rackstraw as James and Monty
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * William Hope as Toby
 * Jules de Jongh as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Isla
 * Nicola Stapleton as Rosie
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * Chipo Chung as Hong-Mei
 * Su-Lin Looi as the Chinese Diesel
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * David Menkin as Jack
 * Nathan Clarke as Alfie
 * Tim Whitnall as Oliver the Excavator
 * Peter Andre as Ace
 * Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here

Trivia

 * This is the first season of a few things:
 * The first season since the sixteenth season to contain 20 episodes.
 * Gina’s first appearance since The Great Race, Ace‘s first appearance since Big World! Big Adventures!, and both characters’ first appearances in an episode.
 * This is the last season to have Andrew Brenner as head writer.
 * Emily Sharpe joins the voice cast.
 * Starting in this season, Thomas, Gordon, James, Percy, Edward and Henry gain extra rivets on their cabs, bufferbeams and smokeboxes, as well as handrails on their cabs and tenders. This was done in order to make them look more consistent with Nia, Rebecca and the other newer characters which have these extra details.