Dinner For One
- TV comedy
- Sky Arts
- 2018
- 1 episode
UK broadcast of the 1963 British comedy sketch that is shown every New Year's Eve on German TV. Stars Freddie Frinton and May Warden.
Press clippings
Dinner For One is to get spin-off series 60 years later in Europe
British TV comedy Dinner for One is getting a spin-off series in Germany, with the country's most famous film studio producing six brand new episodes. Beloved in Europe but virtually forgotten in the UK, the 1960s sketch sees Freddie Frinton playing a butler to May Warden's Miss Sophie, an upper class English woman.
Abbie Llewelyn, Daily Mail, 17th June 2024European New Year's Eve TV staple Dinner For One to get prequel treatment
A British music hall sketch that has sunk into obscurity in its country of origin but is an indispensable New Year's Eve ritual in swathes of continental Europe will be given a new lease of life, after the German production powerhouse UFA announced this week it would start filming a six-part prequel next year.
Philip Oltermann, The Guardian, 30th December 2022This is the first UK airing of a 10-minute British sketch recorded in 1963, which is now a German TV institution, despite being unknown over here. It is an odd mixture of slapstick and melancholy, involving Freddie Frinton's drunken butler gamely playing the parts of the long-deceased guests of his mistress at her 90th birthday party.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 31st December 2018The English comedy spices up German New Year
Raise a glass on a German New Year's Eve and you'll likely encounter this toast: "The same procedure as last year?" "The same procedure as every year."
Joanna Robertson, BBC, 30th December 2018British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years
The 1960s TV sketch airs in the UK for the first time, decades after it became integral to New Year's Eve for Europeans.
Stefanie Bolzen, The Guardian, 30th December 2018How Dinner for One became a German tradition
Dinner for One is watched every year in Germany, but it is virtually unknown in Britain.
Maren Thom, Spiked, 4th December 2018Dinner for One: British skit that conquered Europe
The wobbly British comedy skit that conquered Europe.
Mark Monahan, The Telegraph, 23rd November 2018Dinner for One to be screened in Britain for first time
Odd story of the British comedy classic which has never been screened in Britain. Until now.
Chortle, 19th November 2018Merkel & Sarkozy in reworking of Dinner For One sketch
A 1963 British comedy sketch which is cult New Year's Eve viewing in Germany has inspired a YouTube hit featuring Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.
BBC News, 1st January 2012