If you're going no further than the sofa - here are some tips on what's worth watching on the box between Friday and Sunday...
Friday
The Late Late Show, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
It's a top-notch line-up for this week's Late Late, with Irish athletics champion Sonia O'Sullivan among the guests. She will be joined by her daughter Sophie to talk about Sophie's silver medal success at the European Under-18 Championships in Hungary earlier this year.
Also appearing will be former footballer Tony Cascarino, Snow Patrol, Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch, comedians Jason Byrne and Pat Shortt, and music from pop sensation Anne-Marie, and The Three Amigos.
Film: Roma, Netflix from Friday
You'd really need to have a heart like a cement mixer to watch Roma and not feel that you've been touched in some way by director Alfonso Cuarón's (Gravity, Y Tu Mamá También) storytelling and the light that shines in newcomer Yalitza Aparicio's awe-inspiring performance as hero-for-the-ages Cleo.
Set in Mexico City in the 1970s, this black-and-white masterpiece has every emotion on the colour palette as we share in Cleo's life. She is the lynchpin of a well-to-do family - not the mother, the housekeeper. Looking after the four children (and the two grown-up ones), Cleo's kindness is the glue in all their lives. But whether it's the passing of a plate or sitting on the floor while they watch TV, she is never allowed to forget her place.
The Graham Norton Show, 11.05pm, BBC One
There's never a dull moment on The Graham Norton Show, and as always, there are some great guests in the line-up.
The always charming Aquaman star Jason Momoa is among the guests heading for the couch along with dancer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell, and comedian Bill Bailey. Music on the night comes from Little Mix. Guaranteed lols - not to be missed!
Saturday
Strictly Come Dancing: The Final, 6.30pm, BBC One
It's the last tango in Elstree as the curtain comes down on season 16 of the Beeb's ratings behemoth. After last weekend's semi-final, four couples are left strutting their stuff in a bid to win the glitterball trophy: presenter Stacey Dooley and professional partner Kevin 'From Grimsby' Clifton; former Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts and partner Pasha Kovalev; YouTube star Joe Sugg and partner Dianne Buswell; and Steps' Faye Tozer and partner Giovanni Pernice. Dooley is the favourite, and a win for her would see pro dancer Clifton a Strictly champion for the very first time. There'll be lots of twists and turns along the way!
🚨The Strictly Final songs and dances are IN 🚨
— BBC Strictly ✨ (@bbcstrictly) December 11, 2018
🕺A Showdance, Judges’ Pick and our couples' favourite dance.
📺 (BUT you’ll need to tune-in this Saturday to find that out!)
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The RTÉ Sport Awards, 9.20pm, RTÉ One
It has been a very, very good year, so join Darragh Maloney and Joanne Cantwell as they look back on 2018 in front of an invited audience of Irish sports stars and present the all-important gongs. The Sportsperson and Young Sportsperson of the Year, Team of the Year and Manager of the Year will all be revealed on the night.
Film: Adam & Paul, 11.55pm, RTÉ2
Lenny Abrahamson's assured directorial debut follows two Dublin drug addicts, Adam and Paul, as they navigate the city over the course of a day. It's a deeply touching, frank and humorous look at a social problem that leaves an impact.
Film: Ghostbusters, 9.00pm, Channel 4
The 2016 Ghostbusters remake directed by Paul Feig stars the always watchable Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig as Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert, two paranormal enthusiasts who team up with a nuclear engineer and subway worker in order to battle against a ghostly phenomenon that has invaded Manhattan.
Film: The Big Short, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Based on the non-fiction bestseller by Michael Lewis, The Big Short chronicles a handful of diverse players and intuitive fund managers, who foresaw the looming catastrophe of 2008's global meltdown. Director Adam McKay and co-screenwriter Charles Randolph push the (brown) envelopes in every direction with their tongue-in-cheek humour and piercingly sharp script. You're left both entertained and angry by the absurdity of the financial farce that left millions worldwide jobless and without homes.
Sunday
Ireland's Fittest Family: The Final, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Croke Park is ready for its close-up as it welcomes four families for tonight's showdown - the biggest in Fittest Family history. Donncha O'Callaghan is hoping the Lawlors from Limerick can bring him his second title in two years; Davy Fitzgerald will be roaring encouragement at the McDonalds from Laois, while Anna Geary has two teams, the Finnegan Hogans from Cork and the Coneys from Tyrone, competing for the €15,000 prize and bragging rights.
Fair City, 8.00pm, RTÉ One
Coming up in Sunday's episode of Fair City, Carol pressures Robbie to come clean but when Sharon steps in, she has a life changing decision to make. And Lee comes up with a plan to save the Collins family Christmas.
Film: Cardboard Gangsters, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
As gritty a crime drama as you're ever going to get from Irish cinema, Cardboard Gangsters feels like the type of movie that would have been unthinkable here 20 years ago. It'll still hold up two decades down the line.
With John Connors in the lead role, Mark O'Connor's film tells the story of Jake, a low-level dealer who finds himself in a bind, listens too much to the bravado loop of his crew and decides to move up the ladder.
Film: Brooklyn, 8.00pm, BBC Two
Is Brooklyn the most Irish film ever made? It is certainly brimful to frothing point with all the images and rituals of a nearly vanished Éire, a place of kindly, twinkly-eyed priests, indeterminable Sunday masses, and buttoned-down small-town parochialism.
But John Crowley’s charming, vivid and tender adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s book is so much more than that. It artfully subverts any charges of shamroguery by telling a gripping story of small lives facing upheaval with all the spirit and craft of a classic American film from the era it captures so very well. It also boasts career-high performances from Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson which are understated and quietly devastating.
Film: Springsteen on Broadway, Netflix from 8.00am
If you weren't lucky (and wealthy) enough to make a trip across the Atlantic to get a ticket for The Boss' sold-out Broadway run, then Netflix will usher you to your front row seat from Sunday - the morning after the music legend wraps up his 236-show residency at New York's Walter Kerr Theatre.
Based on Springsteen's best-selling autobiography Born to Run, Springsteen on Broadway sees the man himself joined onstage by wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa as special guest while he takes fans through his life - opening with Growin' Up and closing out the two-and-a-half hours with his most famous song.
