Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: URC Live RTÉ2, 5pm & 7.20pm We’re being treated to two matches back-to-back. The first sees Leinster travel to Benetton (kick-off 5.
15pm) before Munster host Ospreys at Virgin Media Park (7.35pm). Clare MacNamara is our host.
Strictly Come Dancing BBC One, 6.25pm It’s movie week, which means the couples are taking to the dancefloor to perform routines inspired by, or paying tribute to, Hollywood films. Who will impress judges Shirley Ballas (left), Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke? Kirsty MacColl at the BBC Kirsty MacColl at the BBC BBC Two, 8.
40pm A selection of archive performances by the much-missed and admired singer-songwriter. That’s followed by Kirsty MacColl: The Boxed Set (9.40pm), her last filmed concert, recorded in March 2000, nine months before her death.
She also pops up on Queens of Song at The BBC (10.30pm), which rounds off the evening’s musical entertainment. Good Night, and Good Luck TG4, 9.
45pm Acclaimed drama about the enmity between US TV journalist Edward R Murrow and Senator Joe McCarthy during the 1950s. George Clooney (who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay), David Strathairn and Robert Downey Jr star. Excalibur Excalibur RTÉ One, 12.
45am Filmed on location across Ireland, this retelling of the Arthurian legend from director John Boorman helped launch the careers of Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne and Ciarán Hinds, although the lead rol.
