After a pretty decent pilot, Channel 4 have gone and actually commissioned Campus, which is a sitcom set in the strange, dysfunctional world of academic mediocrity, Kirke University. It’s like Green Wing if someone replaced bins filled with surgical bandages with bins filled with the books and dreams of students.
Or something.
And with that, we have a nice trailer you can watch that hasn’t been on the television yet because it has ‘night time language’ in it, which we’re all rather fond of here, right?
Heading up the show is the vapid, fat fingered Jonty de Wolfe. De Wolfe, Vice Chancellor of Kirke University, is played by Andy Nyman who you may recall being an abject horror of a man in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Dead Set’. If you’re a massive Derren Brown fan, you’ll also know about their work together as well, won’t you?
(If not, there’s this thing called ‘Google’ where you can find out more – in short, he’s brilliant).
In the clip, we see Jonty being impressively rude to a man in a wheelchair and generally providing us the opportunity to watch someone say things in a comedic way, through our fingers while clenching our teeth with embarrassment.
Elsewhere, there’s randy English professors, shy-but-attractive lecturer Imogen Moffat and of course, students, all waddling around with their backpacks, hangovers and yeast infections.
All in all, looks like it might be a fun show to watch, right? Find out more on the Channel 4 site.
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busker rhymes says
I am anticipate! the pilot was great, its brilliantly cast and follows in the wake of higher- education based US shows that i enjoy, like Community and Judd Apatow’s Undeclared. Was this another of the comedy showcase series that spawned phoneshop and todd margaret?!? cos wow that was a good idea!