| Alt Name: | Flatpack: The World’s Biggest Furniture Store |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Director: | Rob Farquhar |
| Narrated: | Olivia Colman |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 3 |
| Producer: | Tom Swingler |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Company: | Raw TV |
Flatpack Empire is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Two between 6 and 20 February 2018. The three-part series goes behind the scenes of the world's largest and best-known furniture retailer, IKEA[1] [2] [3] [4] with narrator Olivia Colman.
The series was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two, and Jamie Balment, Commissioning Editor, BBC Documentaries.[5] The series was produced in partnership with the Open University.[6]
The series explores the "distinctly Swedish philosophy behind the company’s extraordinary cultural influence and commercial success".
The Daily Telegraph described the documentary as "gloomy"[7] and The Guardian describing the culture shown in IKEA as "less like a furniture shop and more like a flatpack cult".[8]