It's the final episode of The X-Files - 10.00pm, RTÉ2 - while Arsenal meet Barcelona in Live Champions League on TV3 at 7.30pm, preceded by Champions League Tonight at 7.00pm. Juventus and Bayern Munich also contend - 7.30pm Setanta Ireland, kick-off 7.45pm - preceded by Off the Ball at 7.00pm. Back In Time For The Weekend (8.00pm BBC TWO) revisits the 1980s.
The X-Files, 10.00pm, RTÉ2
Season ten's sixth and final episode, entitled My Struggle II, examines Scully and Mulder’s run-in with the nefarious forces who want to destroy the world. An epidemic in which ordinary people fall ill to a mysterious, extremely fast-acting illness is raging across the nation. Reception of the six-part comeback series has been mixed, tilting perhaps ever slightly towards a general air of disappointment. Moreover, it has been suggested that there are too many side plots to be dealt with in 50 minutes of television in tonight's episode. But yet it will be worth watching, and views tend to be conditioned by dewy-eyed nostalgia for the original series anyway.
Mulder and Scully do valiant battle for the final time - until the next time
Back In Time For The Weekend: The 1980s, 8.00pm, BBC TWO
This week the family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominated our leisure time. It’s also the decade when technology arrived in our homes in a significant way. Kids Daisy and Seth are thrilled by the new VCR and home computer, and there’s even a pager for Steph who’s now a shoulder-padded 80s businesswoman. Dad Rob has got plenty to occupy him - when he’s not trying out the kids CB radio, his home sunbed, or having his highlights done, he is going shopping for a Don Johnson makeover with 80s fashion guru Caryn Franklin.But what does the arrival of all this ‘stuff’ mean for family life?
Walkmans and filofaxes and period costume: the 1980s
Live Champions League: Arsenal v Barcelona, 7.30pm, TV3
First leg of the second round of the UEFA Champions League. Brian Kerr and Graeme Souness are in studio with Tommy Martin discussing the action, and commentary from Kevin Kilbane and David McIntyre. The game is preceded by the preview magazine, Champions League Tonight at 7.00pm. See also Juventus v Bayern Munich, Setanta Ireland, 7.30pm, kick-off 7.45pm, which is preceded by Off The Ball at 7.00pm.
