''Campus'' is a semi-
improvised
Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...
British television
sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...
. It was created by the team behind the
sketch show
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...
''
Smack the Pony
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'' and
hospital
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-based sitcom ''
Green Wing
''Green Wing'' is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the Sketch comedy, sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' – Channel 4 commissioner Caroline Leddy and producer Victoria Pile – and ...
'', led by
Victoria Pile
Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' and the sitcom ''Green Wing''. She began her career writi ...
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
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.
In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor is ...
Jonty de Wolfe (played by
Andy Nyman
Andrew Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor, director, writer and magician.
Early life and career
Nyman was born on 13 April 1966 in Leicester, Leicestershire. His first noteworthy performance was in 2000 as Keith Whitehead in '' Dead ...
),
lazy womanising
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...
professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...
Matt Beer (
Joseph Millson
Joseph Millson (born 27 April 1974) is an English actor and singer. He trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, London.
Personal life
Millson married singer and actress Caroline Fitzgerald in the summer of 1999. The ...
) and newly promoted senior
mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
lecturer Imogen Moffat (
Lisa Jackson).
''Campus'' was first broadcast as a
television pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distri ...
on
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
on 6 November 2009, as part of the channel's ''
Comedy Showcase
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'' season of
comedy
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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
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and
surrealism
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.
''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.
Plot
''Campus'' revolves around the lives of the staff of Kirke University, a
plate glass university
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under the control of Vice Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Nyman). Wolfe is described as "a comedy
grotesque
Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...
",
who wants Kirke and himself to become greater, no matter how it is done. He often gives out what he sees as the harsh truth to people but what others consider to be offensive and even
bigot
Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, rel ...
ed remarks.
He is assisted by the "
Three Graces of Admin", three administrators all of whom are called Grace and are referred to as Grace 1, Grace 2 and Grace 3 or "Big Grace", "Pretty Grace" and "Was Once A Man Grace" (Alison Lintott,
Chizzy Akudolu
Andrea Chizoba "Chizzy" Akudolu (born 7 October 1973) is a British actress.
Career
In 2002, Akudolu was one of eight new comedy performers who won the BBC Talent Initiative, The Urban Sketch Showcase. All eight performed a comedy sketch sho ...
and Matthew Devitt respectively).
One of Wolfe's plans is to exploit the success of newly promoted senior maths lecturer Imogen Moffat (Jackson) and her hit book ''The Joy of Zero'', by ordering her to write a sequel and the other university staff also to write best selling books. His targets include English literature professor Matt Beer (Millson), an unrepentant womaniser, who does hardly any work and who is assisted by
postgraduate
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The organization and stru ...
student Flatpack (
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award and a nomination for a Evening Standard Theatre Award.
Bai ...
), a man who reads hardly any books and instead is keen on sport. Beer tries to come up with ideas but spends more time annoying Moffat and
mechanical engineering
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lecturer Lydia Tennant (
Dolly Wells
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She co-wrote and starred in the Sky Living series ''Doll & Em'' (2014–2015) with Emily ...
), who is annoyed by Moffat's success.
Elsewhere in the university, Nicole Huggins (
Sara Pascoe
Sara Patricia Pascoe (born 22 May 1981) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' for Channel 4, '' QI'' for BBC and '' Taskmaster'' for the digital chan ...
), an accommodations officer, makes an error in the university's accounting system. As a result, everyone in the university has received twice as much pay as normal, giving away over
£2 million. It is left to university
accountant
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Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certifi ...
Jason Armitage (
Will Adamsdale
Will Adamsdale (born 1974) is an English actor, comedian and writer.
Adamsdale was educated at Eton College and the Oxford School of Drama. In 2004, he starred in a self-penned one man show called ''Jackson's Way'' at the Edinburgh Fringe. Th ...
) to try to retrieve the money but he fails. The university is forced to call in
Canadian
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restructuring guru Georgina "George" Bryan (
Katherine Ryan
Katherine Louisa Ryan (born 30 June 1983) is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, and actress based in the United Kingdom.
She has appeared on many British panel shows, including as a regular team captain on ''8 Out of 10 Cats'' and '' Never ...
). Due to her fondness for
downsizing, Wolfe orders for Beer to seduce her in order to make her cuts less damaging.
While Beer tries to carry out Wolfe's orders, he begins to develop feelings for Moffat and starts to suspect that he is falling in love with her. As he tries to reveal his feelings to Moffat, Bryan accepts Beer's offer of sex. In revenge Moffat has sex with Flatpack, who in turn begins to fall in love with Moffat. Meanwhile, Huggins attempts to make Armitage fall in love with her but when Armitage reveals that he is already in a relationship with Cecilia Hare (who does not appear in on screen), Huggins claims that she is a
lesbian
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so that they can still be friends.
By the end of the series, it emerges that Bryan's
one night stand
A one-night stand or one-night sex is a single sexual encounter in which there is an expectation that there shall be no further relations between the sexual participants. It draws its name from the common practice of a one-night stand, a single ...
with Beer has left her pregnant. At the meeting in which she is due to publish her damaging final report on the university, her pregnancy causes her to re-evaluate her priorities, realising that destroying the lives and careers of the staff would be cruel. Wolfe persuades her to modify her report to put Kirke in a better light and offers her a job at the same time. The series ends without resolving the relationships between Beer and Moffat or Armitage and Huggins, who eventually sleep together in the final episode, with Huggins claiming that Armitage "turned" her heterosexual rather than reveal the fact that she lied.
Production
''Campus'' shares connections with an earlier Channel 4 sitcom ''Green Wing''. It has six of the same writers:
Victoria Pile
Victoria Pile, also known as Vicky Pile, is a British comedy writer, director and producer, most noted as the creator of two Channel 4 comedy programmes, the sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' and the sitcom ''Green Wing''. She began her career writi ...
,
Robert Harley,
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,
Oriane Messina
Oriane Messina is a British comedy writer and performer, best known for her work in the sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' and the sitcom ''Green Wing''. She has had a working partnership with fellow writer Fay Rusling since 1999. In 2007, she appear ...
,
Richard Preddy
Richard Preddy (died 7 July 2020) was a British comedy writer and performer, most noted for working in the sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' and the sitcom ''Green Wing''. He had a working partnership with fellow writer Gary Howe since 1987.
Perf ...
and
Fay Rusling
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Performer
:''Gree ...
. It also has the same composer,
Jonathan Whitehead. ''Campus'' references ''Green Wing'' in the show, with the motto of Kirke University being: "With wings."
Filming for the series took place during the summer months of 2010, at the
University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
campus, with some additional internal shots being filmed at
Buckinghamshire New University
, mottoeng = By Art and Industry
, established = 2007 – gained university status 1891 – Science and Art School
, type = Public
, staff =
, chancellor = Jay Blades
, vice_chancellor = Nick Braisby
, st ...
in High Wycombe.
''Campus'' was created by Pile, who also acted as producer and director. She set up the stories, ideas and characters. Once enough material was created, the actors were brought along to read the scripts with the other writers. Millson claimed that the eight writers went off and wrote their own version of the show, and then all the versions were read.
Pile claims that she decided to set the show at a university because they display various kinds of relationships, similar to the hospital setting of ''Green Wing''.
Character development
Jonty de Wolfe is described as a "pseudo-magic figure" by co-writer and editor Christian Sandino-Taylor. Nyman says that in his world, "you are never quite sure whether that's actually him doing stuff or just his madness... he's clearly potty."
Nyman was responsible for Wolfe's appearance, including his
quiff
The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk. It was born as a post-war reaction to the short and strict haircuts for men. The hairstyle was a staple in the British 'Teddy Boy' m ...
hairstyle, and also Wolfe's use of other voices, which he has since gone to claim as being a form of
multiple personality disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), better known as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.
The di ...
. He also claims that Wolfe thinks he is sane, but is actually insane.
Pile said of the character: "We've all had bosses that are power hungry and status obsessed and it's a kind of extension of what we all know and recognise in our fellow human beings, and sometimes in ourselves."
With regards to other characters, Messina describes Jason Armitage as being "awkward" and finding every situation difficult.
Millson describes the relationship between Beer and Moffat as being similar to Benedick and
Beatrice in ''
Much Ado About Nothing
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''. Wells claims that Tennant, "has got to the point now where she'd be grateful for anything... but she would prefer a man". Ryan describes Bryan as being the show's villain.
The characters Flatpack, Grace 2 and Grace 3 were not in the pilot and were later additions. Bailey describes the relationship between Flatpack and Beer as a, "one-sided
unrequited beautiful love." Bailey also claims that he is an "open book" due to his simpleness.
Episodes
Pilot (2009)
Series 1 (2011)
Reception
Pilot
The pilot received a mixed reception when it was broadcast. Jane Simon in the ''
Daily Mirror
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'' wrote that: "There are some very funny moments but the staff at Kirke are perhaps a little too eccentric for their own good. It's as if the challenge was how weird can we make these people and still have them breathe oxygen? Vice-chancellor Jonty (Andy Nyman) comes on like a more megalomaniac
David Brent
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, while womanising English lecturer Matt Beer (think about it) and speccy maths star Imogen Moffat (Joseph Millson and Lisa Jackson) have big shoes to fill if they're to be ''Campuss answer to
Guy ecretanand
Caroline odd, characters from ''Green Wing''"
Sam Wollaston of ''
The Guardian
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'' disliked ''Campus'', saying: "Ah, I see, ''Campus'' (Channel 4) is taking that path: the offensive one. There's nothing wrong with that; offence can be good, if done artfully. There's plenty of it here – Jonty's bigotry and English literature lecturer Matt Beer's (comedy name, like beer mat, but the other way round!) sex pesting. There is talk of rape by pigs, and odd-shaped anal cavities that lead to odd-shaped stools. I'm just not convinced it is being done very artfully. It seems more like offence for the sake of offence. Compare it with the beautifully crafted filth of
Malcolm Tucker
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in ''
The Thick of It
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''. If he is the
Michelangelo
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of offence, this is
Rolf Harris
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."
However,
Caitlin Moran of ''
The Times
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'' praised it saying she hoped a full series would be made. She wrote of the pilot: "Although, like ''Green Wing'', ''Campus'' works as an ensemble of freaks, perhaps the most intriguing mutant is Vice Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Andy Nyman). Initially, he looks like the weakest character – a small, bumptious David Brent clone who keeps attempting Jamaican patois to make a point. But by the end of the show he has turned into a more sinister version of the shopkeeper in ''
Mr Benn
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'' – wandering around the library in a floor-length taffeta ballgown, urging depressed students to commit suicide and, on one occasion, simply disappearing in the middle of a monologue, as if it were a Las Vegas floor-show, leaving his English lecturer Matthew Beer (Joseph Millson) holding a madly clattering clockwork monkey, and his jaw."
Series 1
The first series also had a mixed reaction.
Tim Dowling
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in ''The Guardian'' wrote that: "The central problem with ''Campus'' is that the gossamer-thin thread that tethered ''Green Wing'' to a plot has here completely snapped. Everything is too surreal and unmoored. Vice-chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Andy Nyman) is meant to be monstrously ambitious, but he's just monstrous. He's all over the place – shouting out the window, jumping out of cupboards, putting on accents and indulging in freeform sexist and/or racist rants. His character isn't identifiably pathetic, cynical, inadequate or insane; he isn't even a character, really."
Graeme Thomson wrote for ''The Arts Desk'' that, "''Campus'' tilled familiar ground with diminishing returns and zero warmth", while Dan Owen for ''Obsessed With Film'' about Wolfe that: "He's
David Brent
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meets
Charles Manson
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. It's just a shame his performance is just one of many bonkers turns, because there's so much weirdness it almost becomes suffocating."
There were positive reviews of ''Campus''. Rob Clyne wrote for ''Sabotage Times'' that: "The overall picture of ''Campus'' isn't yet a clear one. At times it feels a little like a few sketches have been slung together, especially as a lot of the Jonty stuff comes out of nowhere. But these are only small gripes – ''Campus'' is hugely original, some may say it is genre defining. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but this is pure entertainment which doesn't need to fall under a specific category."
Louisa Mellor from ''Den of Geek'' attacked some of the complaints against the show saying: "The complaint about implausibility in comedy always baffles me. No, you wouldn't meet people like these in real life. Yes, they are unrealistic. We are all talking about sitcom aren't we? Jonty, Matt, Lydia et al are comic creations, little grains of truth worked up into misshaped pearls of comedy weirdness. It might help to place it on the family tree of ''
The Kids in the Hall
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'', ''
Big Train
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'' or (at a fairly hefty push) ''
Monty Python
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'', rather than as having descended from the much more straightforward worlds of ''
The Royle Family
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'' or ''
The Office
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The original series of ...
''."
On
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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's comedy discussion show ''What's So Funny?'' host
Rufus Hound
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Hound was born on 6 March 1979, in Essex and moved to Surrey at the age of seven. He was educated at Hoe Bridge School Woking ...
and guest
Dom Joly
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Early life
...
both enjoyed the show. Joly described the show as, "one of the funniest things I've seen in three or four years. It made me laugh so much, so quickly."
Cancellation
''Campus'' was cancelled in June 2011 after one series due to poor viewing figures. Following from the pilot which attracted 900,000 viewers (5% of the total viewing audience),
the first episode of the first series attracted only 610,000 viewers (3.7%).
The other episodes attracted 540,000 viewers (3.2%),
380,000 viewers (2.3%),
430,000 viewers (2.5%),
440,000 viewers (2.5%),
and 360,000 viewers (2.1%) respectively.
Over the course of the first series (not including the pilot) the average ratings for the series were 554,000 viewers (2.99%), below the Channel 4 average.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said that, "C4 are very proud to have championed ''Campus'' and those fans who watched adored it, but there simply weren't enough of them to justify a second series."
After the series was cancelled, fans of the show complained to Channel 4. Out of 105 complaints that were sent to Channel 4 about ''Campus'' in June 2011, most of them complained about the programme's cancellation. It was the second most complained about programme on Channel 4 that month, after the documentary ''
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields''.
Merchandise
A
DVD
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of the first series was released on 16 May 2011. It features deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and a re-edited version of the ending to the series as extras. While the ''Comedy Showcase'' pilot version of the first episode has not yet been released on DVD, it is currently watchable available via Channel 4's
on demand service 4oD and in August 2016 it was added to
Netflix
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worldwide.
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