The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series with 52 episodes, from 1991 to 1997 on BBC 1. Fegen and Norriss wrote the first five series, after which they left the show.