Series

The Brittas Empire

★ 6.6(44)199130m7 seasons

Comedy

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The Brittas Empire is streaming on Britbox Apple TV Channel in Canada. Availability checked 16 June 2026.

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Creator: Andrew Norriss
Release date: 1991-01-03
Runtime: 30m
Language: English
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 50
Network: BBC One
Status: Ended

About The Brittas Empire

The Brittas Empire is a 1991 web series in the Comedy genre, created by Andrew Norriss, starring Chris Barrie, Michael Burns and Julia St. John. It spans 7 seasons and 50 episodes, and originally aired on BBC One. It holds an average rating of 6.6/10 from 44 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Brittas Empire in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.