Feelgood, fitness, and films are our picks for tonight.
Ireland's Fittest Family
6:30pm, RTÉ One
It's the second quarter-final of the current series at Hell and Back, Kilruddery, Co Wicklow, featuring coaches Andrew Trimble, Michael Darragh MacAuley, and Donncha O'Callaghan. Michael Darragh has the Walsh family from Cork, Andrew has the Hilliard family from Kildare, and Donncha has the Linehan family from Cork. With the scores of the first two events - The Bog and All Tyred Out - combined, the highest-scoring family will go through to the next round, and the two families at the bottom will have to face off in the Eliminator for another spot in the semi-finals.
Strictly Come Dancing: The Results
7:15pm, BBC One
We're really at the business end of the competition now, and tonight we'll find out which couples have made it through to Musicals Week in next Saturday's quarter-final. The Strictly pros will perform another group number, and there's also music from Myles Smith.
Unwrapped: The Toy Show Appeal
7:30pm, RTÉ One
A look back at one of the good-news stories of recent years - the annual fundraiser that has seen over €26 million raised for children's charities across the island of Ireland since 2020. This one-hour programme showcases the real impact of the public's generosity, sharing powerful stories from children and families across Ireland. Viewers will meet Lucy Kelly in Cork, whose world has opened up through The Crann Centre; young cancer survivor Sophie Quirke from Tipperary, who enjoyed a magical day thanks to Oscar's Kids; and the Ryan family finding comfort at Barretstown Bereavement Camp, along with others supported by Safe Haven Sailing, ChildVision, BUMBLEance, Fighting Words, and My Canine Companion. Donations for the RTÉ Toy Show Appeal 2025 are now open. Just in case you need reminding, the Late Late Toy Show is on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player this Friday night!
We Live in Time
Netflix
As if there weren't enough feels already at this time of year, Brooklyn director John Crowley's latest is a two-hander about the magic and messiness of our numbered days. For this how-to in screen chemistry, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield play Almut and Tobias, a mismatch-in-theory-but-perfect-in-practice couple who meet under very strange circumstances, fall in love, and, as Crowley puts it, discover that "life has other ideas" for them. If you're a big fan of, say, Before Sunrise, Jerry Maguire (there's a riff on it in one scene), The Notebook, or any other romance that screens on a loop in both head and heart, then you should play gooseberry here. You may need to forgive the whimsy of Almut and Tobias's first no-briefs encounter, and there is a tendency to over-egg (and cuddle) Garfield's character as The Most Ideal Man Ever, but the film still packs some wallop, and Pugh is superb throughout.
The Order
Prime Video
One of the best thrillers of recent years, The Order is based on the non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. After watching, you'll want to dig a lot deeper into the 1980s case at its centre. In one of his standout performances, Jude Law plays Terry Husk, an FBI agent investigating a white supremacist group that he believes is responsible for counterfeiting, bank robberies, and bombings as part of its manifesto. The director is the Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, a master in bringing real-life events to the screen - he previously made Snowtown, True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram. Here, he has chosen a tight-as-a-drum script about another true story, cast superbly (including rising Irish star Alison Oliver), juxtaposed damaged people with the beauty of nature, and delivered a finished film that belongs in the same company as The French Connection, Serpico, The Parallax View, and any other hardboiled movies you want to mention.
