If you're going no further than the sofa, here are some tips on what's worth watching on the box over the weekend. As ever, it’s a busy one . . .
Pick of the weekend
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.00pm UTV and 9.00pm TV3 Saturday
Ant and Dec are back with the ultimate Saturday night show, whick has a much later start time now on TV3 to cater for Ireland's Got Talent.
Packed full of popular features like Undercover and I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Out Of Me Ear, as well as showbiz guests, exclusive performances, and outrageous live stunts, it's got plenty for everyone.
The dynamic duo are joined by on screen sidekicks Scarlett Moffatt and Stephen Mulhern for an opening show that sees Kylie Minogue performing in the End of Show Show.
Olly Murs takes the reigns as Guest Announcer, while the boys travel back through time in Ant vs Dec for a dare devil Monster Truck challenge and Scarlett Moffatt will be out in a mystery location looking to fill the front row of the studio audience.
And that's just for starters!
Here's Amanda Holden getting pranked:
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New or Returning Shows
Top Gear, 8.00pm Sunday, BBC Two
The 25th season kicks off with Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid taking a motorsports road trip across America's Wild West, in the latest V8 sports cars from McLaren, Jaguar and Ford. Rob Brydon tackles the Top Gear track in the Reasonably Fast Car.
Gogglebox, 9.00pm Friday, Channel 4
The biggest and best TV moments of the week get their weekly grilling from Britain's sharpest armchair critics as Gogglebox returns for a brand new season of telly-watching and tittle-tattle.
Strike, 9.00pm Sunday, BBC One
Detective dramas based on the novels by Robert Galbraith featuring Tom Burke as private investigator Cormoran Strike.
A dismembered leg sent to Strike's office sends both his and Robin's lives into disarray, forcing them to confront spectres from their pasts.
Hannibal's Elephant: The New Evidence, 8.00pm Sunday, Channel 4
The story of Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps with an army of 40,000 men, 9,000 cavalry and 37 elephants is one of history's greatest legends.
For the first time, an international team of scientists is searching for clues hidden deep beneath the Alps' rocky soil, and their extraordinary discoveries are shedding new light on Hannibal's almost-impossible journey.
Ending this weekend
Fleadh Cheoil, 7.30pm Friday, RTÉ One
John Creedon and Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin conclude their time at this year's Ennis Fleadh Cheoil with a round-up of the top performers.
New to Download
Seven Seconds, from Friday, Netflix
Tensions run high in Jersey City after an African American teenager is critically injured by a cop.
Marseille, from Friday, Netflix
It's season two of this French drama and the battle for the heart of Marseille heats up as right-wing nationalists gain power and a shadowy conspiracy targets the city's beloved football team.
Ugly Delicious, from Friday, Netflix
This new food series sees David Chang and Peter Meehan uncover the world's best grub as they visit far-flung cities and learn how local culture affects gastronomy.
Don't Miss
Winning Streak, 8.25pm Saturday, Channel 4
The National Lottery game of chance celebrates its 1000th show. It's now one of Europe’s longest-running game shows, and is in its 28th season.
Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy are in their fifth year as co-presenters, and since the show's debut 5,900 people have taken part, winning in excess of €167 million in prizes.
Chat Show Line-ups
The Late Late Show, 9.35pm Friday, RTÉ One
Winning Streak presenters Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy, Phil Coulter and his wife Geraldine Branagan, Athlone video-game vlogger Seán McLaughlin join Ryan for a chat.
In human interest, Declan Carty talks about the horror of finding his wife Lorna's body on the beach after she was killed in the 2015 terrorist attack on a Tunisian holiday resort.
The Graham Norton Show, 10.35pm Friday, BBC One/10.30pm Saturday, TV3
In the final show of this run, Graham looks back at some of his favourite moments of the season.
The Ray D'Arcy Show, 9.55pm Saturday, RTÉ One
Shane Lynch, boxer Andy Lee, Supernanny Jo Frost join Ray on the couch, while Claudia Carroll (Nicola from Fair City) and Isabel Mahon (Michelle from Glenroe) square-up in this week's lip sync battle.
Weekend Movies
What Richard Did, 10.00pm Saturday, RTÉ 2
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell, this film's loosely based on Kevin Power's Bad Day in Blackrock, a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000.
Jack Reynor plays Richard Karlsen, the undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of teenagers in Dublin's Southside, whose life begins to crumble following a drunken night and an incident involving his girlfriend's ex.
Also . . .
Shutter Island, 11.05pm Sunday, Channel 4
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this Martin Scorsese psychological thriller as US Marshal Edward Daniels who investigates a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing.
Box Set Binge
Derry Girls, All 4
Loads of people missed out on this as Lisa McGee's sitcom based in Derry in the 1990s popped up virtually unannounced and grew quickly through word of mouth.
Right from the off it grabs you, and the ensemble cast is just terrific.
It's the early 90s, the first day of school and a terrible start for 16-year-old Erin (superbly played by the wonderful Saoirse-Monica Jackson) as she wakes up to find her cousin Orla reading her diary.
Meanwhile Granddad Joe announces there's a bomb on the bridge.
