Campus (2009)

Directed by

Victoria Pile

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This sitcom is set at a fictional university and follows the chaotic lives of the staff. The vice chancellor is power-crazed, the literature professor is lazy and womanising, and a math lecturer tries to adjust to her new promotion.

sillydarksurrealfast-pacedoffbeatoffensiveabsurd

What happens

Campus is a semi-improvised British television sitcom. It was created by the team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director. It is set in the fictitious Kirke University and follows the lives of the staff, in particular the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (played by Andy Nyman), lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer (Joseph Millson) and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat (Lisa Jackson). Campus was first broadcast as a television pilot on Channel 4 on 6 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. A full series was later commissioned and commenced airing on 5 April 2011, with the first episode being a re-shot and expanded version of the pilot. When first broadcast many critics claimed it was too similar to Green Wing and that much of the humour was offensive. However, others praised the show's dark humour and surrealism. Campus was cancelled after one series due to poor TV ratings. Over the course of the first series (not including the pilot) the average ratings were 554,000 viewers per episode, or 2.99% of the total audience, which is below the Channel 4 average. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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