Saturday TV Tips: Movies this evening include Gladiator starring Russell Crowe
Clockwise from left: 'Chernobyl: The New Evidence' is on Channel 4; 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' is on RTÉ One; and 'Gladiator' is on RTÉ2 tonight.
Newt Scamander tries to scupper a sorcerer's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings. Fantasy adventure, starring Eddie Redmayne.
It's 36 years this month since the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, releasing clouds of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere.
This two-part documentary revisits the events of 1986, and explores the mistakes that were made in the run-up to the explosion.
Newly declassified documents reveal the KGB had concerns about the safety of the plant even as it was being built, and files show that organisation's spies issued warnings that it was a disaster waiting to happen.
A Roman general is forced to fight as a gladiator and uses his position to seek revenge for the murder of his family. Oscar-winning epic with Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.
GAA: Hurling League division 1 semi-final, (throw-in 7.15pm, TG4).
URC: v (kick-off 7.35pm, RTÉ2).
Soccer: International friendly: v (ko 5pm, Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Go app); highlights on Virgin Media Two at 10pm and on Virgin Media Player.
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