What German television program is traditionally broadcast every New Year's Eve?

Dinner for One is the German television program traditionally broadcast every New Year's Eve.

The short English-language comedy sketch follows Miss Sophie celebrating her 90th birthday while her butler, James, serves dinner to four absent guests. James imitates each guest and repeatedly drinks the toasts meant for them, creating the sketch's central comic pattern.

Although it was produced in English, the sketch became a major German New Year's tradition after German television broadcasts. The recurring line “The same procedure as every year” became especially recognizable in German-speaking popular culture.

The program is also broadcast in other northern European countries, including Sweden and Denmark, though schedules and local traditions differ. It is not a film about New Year's Eve itself: the story concerns a birthday dinner, while its calendar association comes from the television tradition of showing it around the year's end.