


Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestIt's the day of reckoning as George delivers her final report. However, 'the news' turns out to be not quite what everyone was anticipating.
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Gary Parker, Victoria Pile, Richard Preddy, Fay Rusling, and Christian Sandino-Taylor, with Pile acting as co-writer, producer, and director. At the fictitious Kirke University, the lives of the staff are explored, particularly the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer, and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat. The series was initially broadcast as a pilot on Channel 4 on 6 November 2009, part of the Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. A full series commenced on 5 April 2011, with the first episode being a reshot and expanded pilot. Many critics claimed it was too similar to Green Wing and that much of the humour was offensive. However, others praised the dark humour and surrealism. It was ultimately cancelled after one series due to poor ratings.
Acting
Andy Nyman's Jonty is a masterclass in unhinged bureaucratic evil.
Writing
Semi-improvised chaos from the Green Wing team at their most unhinged.
Direction
Victoria Pile's frantic visual style: sped-up walks, weird cuts, absolute madness.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Campus shared so much DNA with Green Wing that critics dismissed it as a clone — same creators, same hospital-turned-university setting, same visual chaos.
This sits in that cursed 2009-2012 era of British comedy where Channel 4 greenlit everything weird then cancelled it immediately when viewers got confused.