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, Toby and Emily.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Rosie
 * Ashima
 * Shane
 * Yong Bao
 * Rajiv
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * Aubrey and Aiden
 * Ace
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe

UK, AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Edward, Henry, 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
 * Nicola Stapleton as Rosie
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * William Hope as Edward and Toby
 * Kerry Shale as Henry and Gordon
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * Jules de Jongh as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca
 * Nicola Stapleton as Rosie
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here

Trivia

 * This is the first season since the sixteenth season to contain 20 episodes.
 * This is the last season to have Andrew Brenner as head writer.