Updated: Wednesday, 3rd February, 2010 4:45pm

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What's on the box this week?

The cast of 'Lost' (RTE 2, Thursday) get set for its final season as mysteries are set to be revealed.

'Lost' (RTE 2, Thursday) - 'Lost' returns for its final season of mystery and adventure.

Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, leaving 48 passengers alive and stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific. The survivors include a diverse group of people from different walks of life - a doctor, an escaped fugitive, a conman, an Iraqi interrogator, a married Korean couple and a man formerly confined to a wheelchair who is now inexplicably healed.

As the castaways attempt to get home, flashbacks (and forwards) illuminate their troubled lives before and after the crash, when the island they find themselves stranded on begins to slowly reveal its mysterious nature. Faith, reason, destiny and freedoom all clash as the island offers opportunities for both corruption and redemption...but as to its true purpose? That's the greatest mystery of all.

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'Other Voices' (RTE 2, Wednesday) - Intimate performances at St James's Church in Dingle from some of the biggest names in music, including Snow Patrol, The xx, Richard Hawley, Suede front man Brett Anderson, Mercury Music Prize winner Speech Debelle, Temper Trap and Imelda May.

'Other Voices' presenter Annie Mac caught up with all the artists over the week-long recording, with interviews filmed in the most unusual places, including Brooklyn boys The Antlers at the Celtic Prehistoric Museum in front of a giant mammoth's head and a special acoustic performance from Florence and the Machine in a cottage at the most westerly tip of the Dingle peninsula.

The TV broadcasts will run over six weeks on RTE 2, each Wednesday, commencing with live sessions and interviews with Snow Patrol, Speech Debelle and Adrian Crowley. The IMRO Other Room act of the week will be Low Mountain.

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'Super Bowl' (BBC 1, Sunday) - Jake Humphrey presents live coverage of Super Bowl XLVI from Dolphin Stadium, Miami.

The game dubbed 'The greatest show on turf' has a potential global audience of one billion as viewers tune in to see whether the AFC or NFC champions will be crowned Super Bowl winners. Last year, the AFC's Pittsburgh Steelers won a thrilling encounter against NFC title-winners the Arizona Cardinals, scoring the winning touchdown with only 35 seconds remaining.

It's the 10th time that Miami has played host to the NFL's season finale and the 15th occasion it has been held in the sunshine state of Florida. The Super Bowl is always an entertainment spectacle as well as a sporting event and among the half-time entertainment will be legendary British rock band The Who.

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'Murder On The Lake' (BBC 4, Monday) - On the night of 12th January 2006, intruders broke into the house of Joan Root in Naivasha, Kenya. Within minutes, the 69-year-old filmmaker-turned-conservationist was dead, peppered by bullets from an AK-47. In the 1960s and '70s, Joan and Alan Root cut dashing figures as adventurous wildlife filmmakers.

Was this a revenge attack by illegal poachers, angry at Root for stopping their activities? Was it a cold-blooded murder by a disgruntled former employee whom Root had recently let go? Or was it something more bizarre?

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'The Boys Of St Columb's' (RTE 1, Tuesday) - In 1947, a British Act of Parliament granted free secondary education to Northern Irish children for the first time. This film tells the story of eight schoolboys from this first generation who were born into social division and low expectation.

This new era of education changed their country forever and led them to become some of the most important figures in Irish culture in recent history. St Columb's is the only school in the world that can count two Nobel laureates as past students. Participants of the documentary include Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, Phil Coulter and Paul Brady.

As Europe was going to war and Ireland was hemmed in by its neutrality, a generation was born in Derry. It was to become the first generation of educated Catholics in the chequered history of the Northern Irish state. Born into poverty and a gerrymandered voting system that practically divested their community of property ownership, the boys who went to St Columb's received a Church Latin education under a British school educational system.

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Movie Of The Week: 'The September Issue' (Ch4, Sunday) - A network premiere of RJ Cutler's documentary following Anna Wintour, renowned editor of Vogue, as she prepares the September 2007 issue. Weighing in at a record 840 pages, it is also the magazine's most important issue, heralding the autumn fashions. With her trademark bob and omnipresent dark glasses, Wintour comes over as a woman who is a success because she knows exactly what the reader wants, as she supervises each and every page.