Campus (TV series)
| Campus | |
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The Campus title screen
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| Genre | British sitcom |
| Written by |
Robert Harley James Henry Oriane Messina Gary Parker Victoria Pile Richard Preddy Fay Rusling Christian Sandino-Taylor |
| Directed by | Victoria Pile |
| Starring |
Andy Nyman Joseph Millson Sara Pascoe Will Adamsdale Dolly Wells Lisa Jackson Jonathan Bailey Katherine Ryan Alison Lintott Chizzy Akudolu Matthew Devitt |
| Theme music composer | Trellis |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | Pilot + 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Caroline Leddy |
| Producer(s) | Victoria Pile |
| Editor(s) | Christian Sandino-Taylor |
| Running time | 25m (pilot), 50m |
| Production company(s) | Monicker Pictures |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 6 November 2009 – 10 May 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Green Wing |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy 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-shoot 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.
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