Series 23

The twenty-third series of Thomas & Friends will be released in March,31,

2019 on Milkshake!, Nick Jr., ABC Kids and Treehouse.

Production
Series 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
Edward, Henry, Toby, Duck, Donald and Douglas, Oliver, Stephen, Porter, Glynn, Ryan, Theo, Lexi, Hurricane, Merlin, Diesel, Daisy, Salty, Hugo, Frankie, The Chinese Diesel, Marion, Skiff, Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Rusty, Duncan, Luke, Millie, Duke, Rex, Bert, Mike, Judy and Jerome, Terence, Bertie, Bulgy, Cranky, Carly and Big Mickey are also likely to appear.
 * Thomas
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Rosie
 * Ashima
 * Raul
 * Rajiv
 * Shane
 * Yong Bao
 * Gina
 * Hong-Mei
 * Shankar
 * Noor Jehan
 * Tamika
 * Victor
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Henrietta
 * An An and Yin-Long
 * Aubrey and Aiden
 * Lei
 * Jack
 * Alfie
 * Oliver (The Pack)
 * Max and Monty
 * Kevin
 * Ace
 * Emerson
 * Isla
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Charubala

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe
 * Stefano
 * Darcy
 * No.13 Exacavator

Locations

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

UK, AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rob Rackstraw as James and Raul
 * 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
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * David Bedella as Victor
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long and Lei
 * 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
 * Gabriel Porras as Emerson

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon, Max and Kevin
 * Rob Rackstraw as James, Raul and Monty
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * 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
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * David Bedella as Victor
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long and Lei
 * 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
 * Gabriel Porras as Emerson
 * Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt

Japan

 * Kumiko Higa as Thomas
 * Kenta Miyake as Gordon
 * Masashi Ebara as James
 * Chie Kōjiro as Percy
 * Erina Yamazaki as Emily
 * Yoshino Aoyama as Nia
 * Maki Uchiyama as Rebecca
 * Hisayo Mochizuki as Rosie
 * Hiroo Sasaki as Yong Bao
 * Keiko Nemoto as Gina, Henrietta and Jack
 * Hiroaki Tajiri as Raul
 * Koichi Sakaguchi as Victor
 * Sakura Yoshioka as Annie and Clarabel
 * Emiko Takeuchi as Alfie
 * Yuta Odagaki as Oliver the Excavator
 * Hayato Fujii as Max and Monty
 * Takayuki Kawasugi as Kevin
 * Kan Tanaka as Sir Topham Hatt

Germany

 * Christian Stark as Thomas
 * Tetje Mierendorf as Gordon
 * Tobias Schmidt as James
 * Robin Brosch as Percy
 * Kristina von Weltzien as Emily
 * Franziska Trunte as Nia
 * Manuela Bäcker as Rebecca
 * Natascha Pavia as Rosie
 * Kailas Mahadevan as Victor
 * Franziska Lessing as Ashima
 * Jörn Linnenbröker as Yong Bao
 * Mark Bremer as Rajiv
 * Holger Umbreit as Shane
 * Jennifer Böttcher as Gina
 * Joachim Kretzer as Raul
 * Anna Kumosiak as Hong-Mei
 * Christine Hegeler as Tamika
 * Erik Schäffler as Shankar
 * Ines Nierstenhöfer as Noor Jehan
 * Julia Holmes as Annie
 * Marion von Stengel as Clarabel
 * Marion Gretchen Schmitz as Henrietta
 * Franciska Friede as An An
 * Oliver Hermann as Yin-Long
 * Muriel Bielenberg as Aubrey
 * Flemming Stein as Aiden
 * Stefan Weißenburger as Lei
 * Robert Kotulla as Kevin
 * Daniel Schütter as Jack
 * Kai-Henrik Möller as Alfie
 * Matthias Klimsa as Oliver the Excavator
 * Uta Dänekamp as Isla
 * Eberhard Haar as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Anne Hoth as Charubala

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here
 * Shankar's Makeover

Special Episodes

 * Digs and Discoveries

Trivia

 * This is the Gina and Raul’s first appearance since The Great Race, Ace‘s first appearance since Big World! Big Adventures!, and all three characters’ first appearances in an episode.
 * This will be Andrew Brenner's final series as head writer.
 * Emily Sharpe joins the voice cast.
 * Starting in this series, Thomas, Gordon, James and Percy gain extra rivets on their cabs, bufferbeams and smokeboxes, as well as handrails on their cabs and tenders, while Emily gains an extra handrail over her smokebox. This was done in order to make them look more consistent with Nia, Rebecca, and the other newer characters which have these extra details.