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

Characters Introduced

 * Lorenzo
 * Pepe
 * Stefano
 * Darcy

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
 * 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
 * David Bedella as Victor
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * Steven Kynman as Jack
 * Nathan Clarke as Alfie
 * Matt Wilkinson as Kevin
 * Peter Andre as Ace

US and CAN

 * Joseph May as Thomas
 * Kerry Shale as Gordon and Kevin
 * 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
 * Nikhil Parmar as Rajiv
 * Shane Jacobson as Shane
 * Dan Li as Yong Bao
 * Emily Sharpe as Gina
 * David Bedella as Victor
 * Rose Robinson as Tamika
 * Teresa Gallagher as Annie and Clarabel
 * Maggie Ollerenshaw as Henrietta
 * Genevieve McCarthy as Aubrey
 * Tim Bain as Aiden
 * David Menkin as Jack
 * Nathan Clarke as Alfie
 * Peter Andre as Ace
 * 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
 * Kōichi Sakaguchi as Victor
 * Sakura Yoshioka as Annie and Clarabel
 * Emiko Takeuchi as Alfie
 * Takayuki Kawasugi as Kevin
 * Kan Tanaka as Sir Topham Hatt

Episodes

 * Laid Back Shane
 * Wish You Were Here

Special Episodes

 * Digs and Discoveries

Trivia

 * This is the 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 series, Thomas, Gordon, James and Percy 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.