A new drama series, set in a fictional college of an ancient English university, has hit British television screens.
Trinity, shown on Sundays on ITV2, follows the lives of a group of freshers as they settle into life at
Trinity college, Bridgeford University – a hotbed of arcane ritual, secret societies, recreational sex and liberal drug use.
One Magdalen lawyer said, “It’s very ridiculous but funny.” Others are unimpressed, citing a poor
script, bad acting and blatant stereotyping as reasons for switching off.
Trinity is the latest serial to tap in to the widespread fascination for Oxbridge mythology, and will be shortly followed by “When Boris met Dave”, a film about David Cameron and Boris Johnson’s years at the University, which will be broadcast this week.
