The Brittas Empire

1991
7.1| 0h30m| en| More Info
Released: 03 January 1991 Ended
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Country: United Kingdom
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Official Website: http//www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thebrittasempire/
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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.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
ccn89 Enter the chaotic world of Gordon Brittas,..the well-meaning walking disaster manager of Whitbury Leisure Centre.For series 1-5, The Brittas Empire is a surreal but real world of hilarious chaos. It's often quite dark, with deaths and bizarre accidents a frequent occurrence. But like all great sitcoms, the writers, Fergan and Norris get you empathise with their nicely fleshed-out characters.However thinks aren't so good when the writers leave and a new team of writers carry on for series 6, who just don't seem to get it.Series 7 is better than 6, but really you only need to see series 1-5.A Christmas special is confirmed for 2015 penned by one of the original writers, as Whitbury Leisure Centre opens its doors once more to the unsuspecting public. Let's hope the show's comeback is 'exxxxxxcellent!'.
kclambeth The Brittas Empire is great, and everything you could want from a comedy.the story lines are mad and the characters madder but that's the appeal, escapism, to be lost in the madness of Whitbury new town leisure centre.The premise is the leisure centre run by the amazing Gordon Brittas, a picky, annoying, fussy, squeaky voiced man who constantly causes havoc, whilst annoying the public and organizing too many staff meetings and team bonding sessions. the staff are all too familiar with his ways and they add to the fun.There's the fantastic caretaker Colin, disgusting, huge boil on his cheek. couldn't care less secretary Julie, Carol the receptionist whose son lives in the cupboard, Gavin and Tim (Are they gay?) Brittas would be horrified. Linda and Laura, pretty normal, but good, Laura knows how to get round Brittas and Linda is quite feisty and then there's Gordon's long suffering wife Helen, a bit flaky, shop-lifter, obsessive and quite often pregnant, all of them are great actors and very funny.Every week something bonkers occurs, anything you can imagine happening at a leisure centre seems to happen; murders, explosions, and mainly customers wanting to kill Gordon.Well written and Chris Barrie (Brittas) is just great to watch, his mannerisms make me laugh so much and the way he doesn't listen to any of his staff reminds me of so many managers.Even when Gordon Brittas was on a sponsored silence he was annoying! Watch this for a bit of fun and an escape from real life, definitely the best of the 90's.
Pikchar This is one of the funniest British comedies I've ever seen, besides The New Statesman. Mr. Brittas and Carol have got to be the funniest characters in this serial. Mrs Brittas also provides some humour, and each episode guarantees a few laughs. Definitely worth watching!!
gilbregman Gordon Brittas, the manager of Whitbury leisure centre, has a lot in common with the legendary Basil Fawlty of "Fawlty Towers". He lacks any sensitivity to anyone else, never listens to anyone and always knows best what should be done. Of course, the results of his actions are usually similar to the ones Basil gets. Each and every episode ends in some kind of a catastrophe, or to put it in Gordon's words: "I'm proud to say that in the entire history of Whitbury leisure centre, only 23 people were killed and none of them was a staff member" (quoted from memory).

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