Filming for a pilot TV show that could lead to a new comedy drama set in Bath becoming a fixture on our screens begins today. … And the working title, Whatever, reflects the feel of the drama, described by the production company as a situation 'slackcom'. Set in the city centre, it follows the colourful lives of the city's 20 -something 'slacker' community, as they busy themselves with doing as little as they can possibly get away with.

In both Spaced and Bernadette Davies's The Wilsons, it transpires that the dramatist's previous muse, the disenfranchised, has become the equivalent for new comedy writers. Kevin Lygoe describes Spaced as a 'slack-com'. It brings together a disparate group of post-Generation Xers.