TV highlights

'Other Voices' (RTE 2, Wednesday, 11.45pm) - The ninth season of the world-renowned 'Other Voices' series, which was recorded over five days in Dingle during December of last year. A who's who of international and local artists travelled across the snowbound Irish countryside to take part in the recordings including The National, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marina & The Diamonds, Ellie Goulding, Cathy Davey and Lisa Hannigan. Each of the six episodes will feature unique live performances from St James's Church, intimate acoustic sets in some of Dingle's most fascinating nooks and crannies, along with insightful interviews with presenter DJ Annie Mac. Also featuring in each programme will be stripped back sets from some of Ireland's most exciting new music talent, whose performances were recorded as part of the IMRO Other Room. The first programme will feature the most talked-about band of 2010, The National; the incredible guitar and vocals of Anna Calvi and leading Irish singer-songwriter, James Vincent McMorrow. The IMRO Other Room will host the hauntingly beautiful Jennifer Evans. ____________________________________________________________ 'Doctors' (BBC 1, Wednesday, 1.45pm) - As 'Doctors' celebrates its 2,000th episode, Ian Lavender and Simon Shepherd guest star in a special hour-long episode of the award-winning continuing drama, which sees the Mill Surgery under lockdown as a deadly virus is unleashed. A woman collapses in a hotel conference room with a mysterious rash. She later wakes in an isolation tent. When asked by Elliot Taylorman, the scientist investigating the virus, if she's been in contact with anyone else and if so where they are, she says only “the Mill†before she passes out. ____________________________________________________________ 'Ireland's Animal Hospital' (TV3, Thursday, 7.30pm) - Ireland's Animal A&E returns for a new series, and once again Michael Hayes and the team will be back at UCD Hospital, checking in on the staff and patients and following cases as they arrive at the clinic. This year, Micheal will also be spending time with the emergency service unit, which operates an out-of-hours service for animals in need of urgent care. Andrea Hayes will team up once again with Brenda Hughes, Conor Dowling and the rest of the ISPCA team as they hit the road in a bid to rescue more animals from neglectful and cruel situations. This series promises more insightful and emotional rescues as the team uncover the underground world of the puppy farm, a growing problem in Ireland. ____________________________________________________________ 'Endgame Afghanistan' (ITV, Thursday, 7.30pm) - David Cameron says British troops could start returning from Afghanistan this year, so Morland Sanders travels to Helmand Province to investigate what's been achieved during the 10-year conflict. He witnesses the training of the Afghan National Army, who are going to take over from British troops, and follows a chaplain as he counsels young soldiers about to return to the frontline. ____________________________________________________________ 'South Riding' (BBC 1, Sunday, 9pm) - Anna Maxwell Martin and David Morrissey lead the cast in a three-part adaptation of the novel by Winifred Holtby. This 20th-century classic is a rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the 1930s that carries surprising echoes of the present day. In the long aftermath of the First World War, 30-year-old Sarah Burton comes home from London to Yorkshire to take up the headmistress-ship of a struggling Yorkshire high school for girls. She is the very image of a modern woman, much more recognisable to her sisters in 2010 than she would have been to her contemporaries in 1935 – full of ambition, passion and fire to take her life into her own hands and live it to the very limit of her strength. But the homecoming is more complicated than she thinks and, before long, her ambitions are in conflict with her feelings for the man least likely to have won her heart – Robert Carne, the handsome, haunted gentleman farmer she clashes with. ____________________________________________________________ 'Treme' (Sky Atlantic, Tuesday, 11pm) - Created by David Simon, who gave us 'The Wire', the series takes its name from a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. The series begins three months after Hurricane Katrina where the residents of the city, including musicians, chefs and ordinary New Orleanians try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 disaster. ____________________________________________________________ Movie Of The Week: 'The Ruins' (BBC 1, Friday, 11.30pm) - Gruesome horror about a group of American twentysomethings whose Mexican holiday takes a grisly turn. Exploring an ancient Mayan temple, the group offers assistance to a disturbed fellow tourist. Unfortunately, the mercy mission turns into a desperate fight for survival as the young folk discover that something deeply unpleasant is waiting for them in the ruins.