Video taking off 14x its usual first day

Ellen DeGeneres floats a mowing show called "Lawn and Order"

A Graham Norton sofa visit becomes a comic pitch for British television, rather than a confirmed comeback announcement.

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BBC Story of October 21, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 186,642 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (12,972).

Ellen DeGeneres might be ready for a TV comeback... - BBC

Sewing, pottery, people watching other people watch television: Ellen DeGeneres has been considering what makes a British TV show. Her proposed addition involves mowing the lawn to get some distance from your family.

The BBC's short clip from The Graham Norton Show passed 100,000 views in nine hours, an unusually fast start for its Shorts. It begins with a more straightforward question from Norton: does she miss television?

"I miss the, you know, I miss laughing every single day, with the writers," DeGeneres says. She also jokes about missing kissing fellow guest Colin Farrell, before turning to the possibility of doing something in Britain.

There is no new show announcement here. Instead, DeGeneres says she called Norton with nothing to promote and asked whether she could simply sit on the couch. From there, she works through British television's seemingly everyday subjects and arrives at her own lawn-mowing format.

The title is "Lawn and Order." Norton responds that a commissioning email will reach her before she leaves the set.

The comment section is already far busier than the BBC's usual first day for a Short. Much of the discussion questions the prospect of DeGeneres returning to television, while some viewers pick up on her reference to Gogglebox, the show built around people watching TV.

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