What's on the box this week?

'Election 2010' (ITV & BBC Thursday, 10pm) - Alastair Stewart anchors ITV's coverage of the tightest election in decades, and it promises to be a night of high drama. The programme starts with a national exit poll, giving first indications of the likely result. Correspondents across the UK will report live from key seats, and follow the major party leaders as the shape of the new parliament unfolds. Just across the river from Westminster, Mary Nightingale will have an unparalleled gathering of guests from all walks of public life. Julie Etchingham takes charge of ITV's computer graphics, and there's live analysis all night from political editor Tom Bradby and election analyst Prof Colin Rallings. The BBC will also have comprehensive coverage of the election, with a team headed up by David Dimbleby, Jeremy Paxman, Fiona Bruce and Nick Robinson, and including Jeremy Vine with the BBC's 2010 version of the famous swingometer measuring the ebb and flow of the votes as they come in. 'Super Garden' (RTE 1, Wednesday, 8pm) - This popular gardening series returns for a brand new season in which five amateur garden designers compete to showcase their garden at this year's 2010 Bloom Festival. With only five weeks and a budget of €6,000 to design their garden, the amateurs face a difficult challenge. Their briefs are all different and are tailored to suit the home-owners' needs. These include: A sun garden (Mullingar) - the family want a modern garden which makes the most of most of its sunny position. A duck garden (Clontarf) - the owners have 10 ducks so they want a garden designed to suit their ducks' needs. A statement garden (Maynooth) - the couple want a garden with the wow factor but which is also dog friendly. A cottage garden (Skerries) - owners are looking for a modern take on the traditional Irish cottage garden, And finally, a family garden (Limerick) - home-owners want a low maintenance garden that suits their kids' needs. The winner will be announced in the sixth and final episode of the series when all the designers and judges will meet in the more convivial atmosphere of Powerscourt House and Gardens. 'History Cold Case' (BBC 2, Thursday, 9pm) - A documentary series featuring ground-breaking forensic techniques is set to shed new light on the history of our forebears, by unearthing the remarkable life stories of human skeletons from across the ages. The series follows the work of world-renowned Professor Sue Black at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, where they specialise in dead bodies, crime scenes and human identification. Now, for the first time, they are going to use their extraordinary talents to delve into the past 2,000 years of history and, quite literally, give unidentified human skeletons their identities back. The remains have been found in a range of circumstances: from a medieval knight with an arrow in his back found under a floor of a Scottish castle, to a heavily scarred Georgian woman discovered in a mass burial pit in London, to a mummified child from Victorian Britain. All are everyday people from across the ages, whose extraordinary stories would have died with them if it weren't for Sue Black and her colleagues. 'O2 Ability Awards' (RTE 1, Thursday, 11pm) - Hosted by Ryan Tubridy and Caroline Casey, this two-part television series brings some of the most compelling human and business stories from organisations big and small that champion the ability and value of employees and customers with a disability. Programme one sees Tubridy and Casey present a number of short films from the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin, featuring companies that are on the shortlist to be winners at the awards itself. The organisations shortlisted for this year's O2 Ability Awards together employ 49,750 people in organisations spanning eight different sectors across 14 counties. Movie Of The Week: 'War Of The Roses' (RTE 1, Friday, 11.55pm) - Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are directed by Danny DeVito in this edgy 1989 comedy. After 17 years, Oliver and Barbara Rose want a divorce. Not for this couple is there anything resembling a "civilised understanding": Barbara wants their opulent house and Oliver isn't about to part with the domicile. Barbara nails the basement door shut while Oliver is downstairs, Oliver disrupts Barbara's fancy party by taking aim at the catered dinner, Barbara lays waste to Oliver's sports car....and so it goes, culminating in a disastrous showdown around, about and under the living room's fancy chandelier.