In response to the news of the show's cancellation "The Guardian" published an article, 'Popular but pulled', about various popular TV shows that have been unexpectedly axed. The article reported that "Irate supporters the show set up a Facebook page called Save Pulling. At the time of writing 2009, however, the group only had 1,049 members - with a good third of those being media or comedy professionals." Kelly was also quoted as saying that "We were quite disappointed - and quite surprised - by the decision to cancel as the show was doing really well, had won awards and I believed Danny BBC3 controller liked it." Cohen however stated that "We didn't cancel Pulling, we just commissioned it in a different form a special".