Irish Independent

The best of tonight’s television

- PAUL WHITINGTON

■ BEST SPORT Winter Olympics Highlights RTÉ2, 7.30pm

Day six action as Clare McNamara presents highlights of the men’s figure skating, men’s snowboardi­ng and Super-G skiing, in which Ireland’s Pat McMillan is competing.

■ PROGRAMME OF THE DAY Married at First Sight Channel 4, 9pm

New series of the show in which total strangers marry each other the first time they meet. The contestant­s have been matched by experts in line with their personalit­ies and interests, but before they tie the knot they must convince their families that marrying a stranger is a good idea. Then comes the moment when they first lay eyes on one another.

■ BEST DRAMA Homeland RTÉ2, 10.10pm

Carrie has moved back to Washington DC to live with her sister, but is determined to expose the new president’s duplicity and free Saul and her other CIA colleagues.

■ MOVIE OF THE DAY The Wrestler TCM, 9pm

Darren Aronofsky’s ambitious sporting drama stars Mickey Rourke as a former profession­al wrestler who risks his health by continuing to fight.

■ WATCH BACK Death Row 3 Player

Veteran broadcaste­r Trevor McDonald returns to Indiana State Prison to visit some of the men he met on death row and find out how they’re coping.

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Mickey Rourke stars in The Wrestler. Below: Veteran broadcaste­r Trevor McDonald
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