The Brittas Empire

Series Similar to The Brittas Empire

If you enjoyed The Brittas Empire, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The IT Crowd

   2006 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.

2. Black Books

   2000 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's worst-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme or violent or fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre.

3. Whites

   2010 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Roland is a fantastic chef who was on the brink of success 15 years ago, but has since lost the sparkle and drive needed to win that long coveted Michelin star. When he puts his mind to it he can cook with the best of them, but laziness gets the better of him, much to the annoyance of the restaurant's manager and Roland's secret admirer, Caroline (Katherine Parkinson). Joining them in the kitchen is quirky waitress Kiki (Isy Suttie), the hotel's owner Celia (Maggie Steed) and ambitious new apprentice chef, Skoose (Stephen Wight), whose ambition it is to replace the constantly under-pressure and long-suffering Bib! Amidst fine-dining and beautiful countryside, Whites should be a tranquil slice of heaven – but with this disparate group of characters behind the scenes, things can regularly heat up in the kitchen...

4. Are You Being Served?

   1972 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC One.

   This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, with the characters rarely calling their co-workers by their given names. Many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich-but-stingy store owner.

5. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

   1976 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Leonard Rossiter stars in David Nobbs's black comedy about a sales executive whose mid-life crisis results in him faking his own death.

6. The Thin Blue Line

   1995 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on BBC One.

   The Gasforth police station often is the scene of comic discord between the uniformed officers led by Inspector Raymond Fowler and the detectives under the supervision of Detective Inspector Derek Grim.

7. dinnerladies

   1998 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   dinnerladies is a British sitcom which aired on BBC 1 from 1998-2000. It was created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood.The series is set entirely in the canteen of HWD Components, a fictional factory in Manchester and featured the caterers and regular customers as the main characters.

8. On the Buses

   1969 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Stan Butler works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Bus Company. He lives at home with his overbearing mother, his frumpy sister Olive and his lazy brother in law Arthur. Stan's route is the number 11 to the Cemetary Gates which he works with his conductor Jack. Stan and Jack have an eye for the ladies and are often found chatting up either the female bus conductors or the canteen staff. The bane of Stan's life is Inspector 'Blakey' Blake who is often checking up of them and threatening them with the sack for lateness and untidyness.

9. Waiting for God

   1990 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management and their own families.Set at the fictional Bayview Retirement Home near Bournemouth, the show was based around Diana Trent and her relationship with Tom Ballard, a former accountant with semi-feigned dementia. He has been exiled there for the convenience of his family.

10. Fawlty Towers

    1975 · Comedy · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), hidden gem.

    Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.