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''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),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonty de Wolfe (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. ==Plot== (詳細はplateglass university under the control of vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Nyman). Wolfe is described as "a comedy grotesque",〔 who wants Kirke and himself to become greater, no matter how it is done. He himself often gives out what he sees as the harsh truth to people, but what others consider to be offensive and even bigoted remarks.〔 He is assisted by the "Three Graces of Admin" – three administrators all of whom are called Grace, and thus 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 and Matthew Devitt respectively). Among 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 to also 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 student Flatpack (Jonathan Bailey), a man who reads hardly any books and instead is keen on sport. Beer therefore tries to come up with ideas, but instead spends more time annoying Moffat and mechanical engineering lecturer Lydia Tennant (Dolly Wells), who is annoyed by Moffat's success.〔 Elsewhere in the university, Nicole Huggins (Sara Pascoe), 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 Jason Armitage (Will Adamsdale) to try to retrieve the money. However, he fails to do so. As a result, the university is forced to call in Canadian restructuring guru Georgina "George" Bryan (Katherine Ryan). However, 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. However, 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 so that they can still be friends.〔 By the end of the series, it emerges that Bryan's one night stand 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 reevaluate 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campus (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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