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.

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.

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, 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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81.. The Context. Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 in ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, Creator of TV’s ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’ Dies at 81 She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series Thomas And Friends, has died.Brannon Carty, a filmmaker who made the documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of ...