Series 23

The twenty-third season (going under the name Big World! Big Adventures!) 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
 * Emily
 * Nia
 * Rebecca
 * Ashima
 * Rajiv
 * Gina
 * Shane
 * Yong Bao
 * Hong-Mei
 * Shankar
 * Noor Jehan
 * Tamika
 * Annie and Clarabel
 * An An and Yin-Long
 * Aubrey and Aiden
 * Isla
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Charubala

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe

UK AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Nigel Pilkington as Percy
 * Teresa Gallagher as Emily, Annie and Clarabel
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Isla
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Chipo Chung as Hong-Mei
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon
 * Rob Rackstraw as James
 * Christopher Ragland as Percy
 * Jules de Jongh as Emily
 * Yvonne Grundy as Nia
 * Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Isla
 * Tina Desai as Ashima
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Chipo Chung as Hong-Mei
 * Sanjeev Bhaskar as Shankar
 * Sheena Bhattessa as Noor Jehan and Charubala
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Siu-see Hung as An An
 * Windson Liong as Yin-Long
 * 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.
 * Emily Sharpe joins the voice cast.