Football, films, and more are our picks for tonight.
Kenny Dalglish
Prime Video
After a troika of documentaries examining troubled geniuses Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse, and Diego Maradona, Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia has turned his lens - lovingly - to one of his childhood heroes. Celtic, Liverpool, and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish is now 74, still going strong (as evidenced by a recent appearance on the podcast series Stick to Football), and fits seamlessly into Kapadia's talking-heads-free template of matching his subject's voice to archive footage. As with Kapadia's other documentaries, this one deftly flows through the decades, taking us from Dalglish's Glasgow childhood to his resignation as Liverpool manager in 1991, and justifies its 104-minute running time. Actually, it should have been longer.
The Late Late Show
9:35pm, RTÉ One
It's Saipan all over again on The Late Late - but this time with the stars of one of the most eagerly awaited films of 2026. Saipan stars Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke will join Patrick Kielty in the studio to talk about playing Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane as the infamous World Cup 2002 bust-up is brought to big-screen life. Also on Friday night's show, new Liveline host Kieran Cuddihy will talk about taking over from Joe Duffy, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns will discuss Ireland's political landscape, and comedian Jarlath Regan will bring the fun with his observations on life. There's also music from singer-songwriter Nell Mescal.
Pearl
Channel 4 Player
If you're looking for blood-red horror and pitch-black humour, then fill your boots - or in this case, dungarees - here. This prequel to the much-admired 2022 slasher X is turbocharged by a gloriously bonkers performance by Mia Goth - a top hat-wearing, liquid morphine-guzzling, monologue-unleashing triumph. Set in 1918, the film finds Goth's titular antihero with stars in her eyes. She wants to be a dancer but is stuck on the family farm with her puritanical mother and syphilis-ravaged father. The pressure cooker that is Pearl's mind has been on the stove for way too long and is just about ready to explode... From an opening that juxtaposes jaunty malevolence with the orchestral sweep and vivid palette of Classic Hollywood, Pearl sets out its stall as a movie for those who crave weirdness on the edge of town - and then some. Sure enough, director Ti West and star and co-writer Goth are true to their word and give the audience their money's worth in scene after scene as Southern Gothic succumbs to savagery, in style.
Live League of Ireland
7:00pm, Virgin Media Two
It's Bray Wanderers v Waterford (kick-off 7.45pm) in the promotion/relegation play-off match at Tolka Park. Can Bray midfielder Justin Ferizaj (above left with team-mate Cian Curtis) turn on the magic again to book The Seagulls a place at the top table or will Pádraig Amond's remarkable goalscoring exploits continue and keep Waterford in the Premier Division? And there's more to come this weekend - the Sports Direct FAI Cup Final between Cork City and Shamrock Rovers is on Sunday from 2:00pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
Bone Tomahawk
Channel 4 Player
If ever a film starts as it means to go on, it's S Craig Zahler's bloody and banter-filled way-out Western. Kurt Russell (the sheriff), Richard Jenkins (the never-shuts-up deputy), Matthew Fox (the lethal dandy), and Patrick Wilson (the broken-legged rancher) set off on a rescue mission from the town of Bright Hope. With every gallop, the chances of them all making it home fade. This genre mash-up gives horror a home on the range but also manages to be tender, blackly humorous, and downright disgusting - often in the one scene. If you haven't the stomach for viscera, pick something else to watch, but if you reckon you're good with gore, then there are many treats en route to the Valley of the Starving Men. And once they get there... Zahler found his own fab four for his debut, and the antagonism between its heroic quartet is every bit as much fun as the atavistic action that awaits. Showing a flair for understatement (the only example associated with this movie), star Fox told Entertainment Weekly at the time of Bone Tomahawk's release: "The fact that I'm in a Western with Kurt Russell is pretty cool." Indeed, spending two hours with the keeper of the flame in the safety and comfort of your own home is no hardship either, but probably best enjoyed on an empty stomach!
