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

Edward, Henry, Duck, Donald and Douglas, Diesel, Salty, Stephen, Porter, Victor, Luke, Kevin, Cranky, Carly, Big Mickey, Sir Robert Norramby, Glynn, Oliver, Toad, Daisy, Philip, Bill and Ben, Beresford, Theo, Lexi, Hurricane, Frankie, Merlin, Hugo, Dexter, Jack, Alfie, Oliver (The Pack), Max and Monty, Rex, Mike, Bert, The Thin Clergyman, Willie, Fergus Duncan, Skarloey, Rheneas, Duncan, Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Millie, Rusty, Ryan, Skiff, Judy and Jerome, Captain Joe, Terence, Bertie, Trevor, Harold, Bulgy, Axel, Etienne, Lady Hatt, Dowager Hatt, Stephen Hatt, Bridget Hatt, Duke and Duchess of Boxford, Spencer, Samson, Bradford, Marion, Stafford, Reg, Troublesome Trucks, Slip Coaches, Tony, Tamika, Isla, Lei, Hong-Mei, The Chinese Diesel, An An and Yin-Long, Shankar, Noor Jehan and Charubala are also likely to appear.

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe

Locations

 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Knapford
 * Vicarstown
 * China
 * India
 * Australia
 * Italy

UK, AUS and NZ

 * John Hasler as Thomas
 * Keith Wickham as Gordon, Salty 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
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * 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
 * William Hope as Toby
 * 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
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * Keith Wickham as Salty and Sir Topham Hatt

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here
 * An Argument of Proportions
 * The Sodor Fish
 * The New Steam Team Member
 * A Tank Engine's New Shed
 * A Tank Engine's Love

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.
 * This is Ace and Gina's first appearance in an episode.
 * Emily Sharpe joins the voice cast.