EDDIE REDMAYNE is letting off steam following his award season success, and making friends with Britain’s favourite locomotive in the process, alongside John Hurt and Jamie Campbell Bower.

"Thomas & Friends" is returning for a new season on PBS Kids, and in a nod to the growing popularity of the British tank engine and his pals, the show is getting a big upgrade on the PBS schedule.

Thomas & Friends’ CG animated DVD special, King of the Railway will be on sale from Monday, September 2, priced £12.99. ...

He won’t be playing Thomas, but voicing a brand new engine called Ryan for a Thomas and Friends DVD called Sodor’s Legend Of The Lost Treasure.

The maker of Thomas and Friends has told Channel 4 News that Christmas is still celebrated in its tales of the tank engine after reports that festive references have been dropped from a DVD.