she spent four years raising the necessary funding to produce the first 26 episodes of what was then called Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in 1984. The show was an instant hit with young ...

After securing the rights, she and her husband, fellow TV producer Angus Wright, spent four years securing funding for their program. The result was Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends (later ...

To celebrate 80 years of the legacy of Thomas, Thomas & Friends is teaming up with Propstore to host an online charity auction. The auction will open to bids worldwide beginning May 12 ...

Our team worked with extreme care and diligence to restore the episode, using the original pilot script as a guide, stitching together film trims that are now over 40 years old, revealing a glimpse ...

The show, which included segments that had first aired on a British show called “Thomas & Friends,” began airing ... Thomas for the previous five years quit, saying that the successful show ...

The TV show, based on the books by Rev Wilbert Awdry, will be relaunched next week with new multicultural and gender-balanced characters, 73 years after it was created. ‘Thomas & Friends’ will ...

Children’s programme Thomas And Friends is to introduce an “inclusive ... Thomas the Tank Engine was created more than 70 years ago by Reverend Wilbert Awdry as part of his Railway Series ...

The show first launched as “Thomas & Friends” in 1984 before being renamed “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.” “Over the years of knowing ... the late 1990s and early 2000s but only ...