Sci-fi, football and frights in the Irish countryside are our selections for tonight.
Prometheus
9:00pm, RTÉ2
Popcorn (and spacesuits) at the ready for the Irish network television premiere of Ridley Scott's Alien prequel of sorts. It divided audiences upon its cinema release in 2012 but is still a sci-fi you have to see – and may appreciate more second time around. Michael Fassbender steals the show as the android David, a character partly modelled on David Bowie's turn in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Loving the Alien, anyone?
Match of the Day Live: Reading v Arsenal
5:05pm, BBC One
Gary Lineker presents one for the romantics as the Championship side from Berkshire take on the current FA Cup holders at Wembley. Reading haven't made it this far in 88 years and have never reached the final. For Arsenal, it's their 28th FA Cup semi, and they have won all 12 of their previous encounters with the Royals. Commentary is from Steve Wilson and Danny Murphy.
In Fear
11:40pm, Channel 4
Ah yes, a scare at bedtime. Sherlock director Jeremy Lovering makes his feature directing debut with this self-penned, Ireland-set psychological chiller which plays on two of life's great terrors: becoming lost and a man having to ask for help with directions. While the 'young lovers' set-up here is as familiar as your own way home and the terror tropes are well signposted, Lovering deserves credit for making a movie that is still genuinely unnerving and which uses genre conventions to explore male insecurity, trust issues and our propensity for violence. When someone goes out of their way to make a car alarm sound like the music from Psycho, you know you're in good company.
