The beloved children's TV shows are adding diverse new characters that reflect real people more fully. On Thomas & Friends, child actors with autism will voice the new character, Bruno the Brake Car.

Kids have read about the Thomas the Tank Engine since the 40's and watched "Thomas & Friends" on television since the 1980's. The adventures of Thomas, and his friends, a group of steam engines ...

Thomas’s new friends will be introduced to the public in a movie called, “The Great Race,” slated for global release in May, with related merchandise and DVD available in August -- in select ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, died at 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft’s death was announced by filmmaker Brannon Carty.

In 1984, the series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. She spent four years alongside her husband - TV producer Angus Wright - raising funds to create the first 26 episodes.

Thomas the Tank Engine was created 73 years ago and producers of the show had been accused of not having a diverse range of characters. Thomas & Friends, which airs in 160 countries, plans to ...

A statement from the owners of Thomas the Tank Engine, Mattel, reads: "We are not associated with images that promote hate and denounce any images of our brands that are being used to convey a ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, the fictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas the Tank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends ...

Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and ...