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."
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" […]