Citations:slackcom

English citations of slackcom

Noun: "(UK) a sitcom which revolves around a slacker or slackers"

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• 1999 — "Now contemporary Bath is put in the TV spotlight", Bath Chronicle, 21 June 1999:

  And the working title, Whatever, reflects the feel of the drama, described by the production company as a situation 'slackcom'.

• 1999 — "Four the record", The Guardian, 5 July 1999:

  Here are some examples: our forthcoming adaptation of Dava Sobel's Longitude; a Tony Marchant drama about a child with attention deficit syndrome called Kid in the Corner; a brilliant new "slackcom", Spaced; […]

• 1999 — Janine Gibson, "Spaced out", The Guardian, 6 September 1999:

  "Slackcom," confesses Cheryl Taylor, commissioner for entertainment at Channel 4, "is a term we started bandying around because of the nature of a lot of the sitcoms we started receiving; proposals revolving around twenty- or thirtysomething non-professionals."

• 1999 — Robert Hanks, "Television Review: Small Potatoes", The Independent, 10 November 1999:

  Small Potatoes (C4) was something entirely different: a sitcom - no, let's get the jargon right - a slackcom about "an underachieving video-shop assistant".

• 2001 — Peter Ross, "The Final Frontier", Sunday Herald, 18 February 2001:

  They made Spaced, realising a dream of having "domestic situations filmed like Evil Dead II", and were immediately credited, by buzzword-mongers, with inventing the "slackcom" […]