Alien Empire was a documentary television series about insects produced by the BBC, and first broadcast by PBS in 1996.
The following six episodes were broadcast on BBC1: Alien Empire was first broadcast in the United States on PBS, as part of the series Nature, in three daily parts, from Sunday 11 to Tuesday 13 February 1996.
Alien Empire was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1, as a six part series (and not as part of the series Nature), from 15 February to 21 March 1996, on Thursdays at 8pm.
[12] Its success with younger audiences inspired the creation of Bug City, a direct-to-video educational series aimed at children.
[13] The book Alien Empire: An Exploration of the Lives of Insects, by Christopher O'Toole is a companion to the series, published, by BBC Books in London and by HarperCollins in New York, in 1995.