Pulling - Auntie Knows Best?

The BBC’s decision, not to re-commission a third series of the superb sitcom, Pulling, is another example of Auntie not realising what they have got until it’s gone. The Simpsons, 24 and for a brief period, Match of the Day, have all slipped through the Beeb’s fingers in recent years, and when you start to think about what they have kept hold of – Two Pints of Lager, My Family – it makes the loss of these and other exceptional programmes a bitter pill to swallow.

Written by and starring Sharon Horgan, Pulling followed the fortunes of Donna, facing up to single life after ditching her fiancé on the eve of their wedding. Rude, crude and containing more visual comedy in one half hour episode than there is in a Mr Bean box-set, the short-lived series was a hidden gem awaiting to be unearthed.

However, Just like Julia Davis’ Nighty Night and Sean Lock’s 15 Storeys, two series was all we were going to get, and Pulling sadly passed over to TV afterlife otherwise known as Dave.

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