Green Wing creator Victoria Pile writes new C4 comedy

Pile (centre) won two International Emmys for sketch show Smack the Pony

Filming has started on writer Victoria Pile's first comedy project for Channel 4 since the Bafta-winning Green Wing.

Campus is set on the grounds of the fictional Kirke University and was commissioned as part of November's Comedy Showcase season.

Dead Set actor Andy Nyman plays ruthless vice chancellor Jonty De Wolfe and told the BBC the show "is very funny and treads a very fine line".

Campus is due to be screened early in 2011.

Speaking at the press night for new West End show Ghost Stories, Nyman said: "It's her vision and she has a brilliantly warped sideways sense of looking at things."

"Some of it is very odd," he added.

Victoria Pile won two international Emmy awards in the US for the hit sketch show Smack the Pony and followed this by picking up an audience-awarded Bafta for Green Wing in 2005.

The often surreal comedy - set in hospital - ran for two series and a special between 2004 and 2006.

Nyman is currently starring in Ghost Stories, a show he co-wrote with League of Gentlemen co-creator Jeremy Dyson.

Born of a mutual love of all things supernatural, Nyman says he has enjoyed scaring the audiences.

"The joy of it is, every time the audience thinks they know what's going to happen, you pull the rug from under them," he says.

Ghost Stories runs at London's Duke of York's Theatre until 7 November.