| Campus | |
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| Genre | 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 |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Caroline Leddy |
| Producer | Victoria Pile |
| Editor | Christian Sandino-Taylor |
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| Production company | Monicker Pictures |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Release | 5 April – 10 May 2011 |
| Related | |
| Green Wing | |
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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),[1] lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer (Joseph Millson) and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat (Lisa Jackson).[2]
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.[3] However, others praised the show's dark humour and surrealism.[4][5] 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.[6]
- ^ "Jonty de Wolfe (Andy Nyman)". Channel 4. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ Wolf, Ian (6 April 2011). "Campus – Character Guide". British Comedy Guide.
- ^ Wolf, Ian (6 April 2011). "Campus attracts less than 750,000 viewers". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Clyne, Rob (6 April 2011). "Campus: Your New Favourite Comedy". Sabotage Times. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Mellor, Louisa (6 April 2011). "Campus episode 1 review: Publication! Publication! Publication!". Den of Geek. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ Wolf, Ian (29 June 2011). "Channel 4 axes university sitcom Campus". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
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