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Tonight's TV highlights 15/04/2013

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The Hoarder Next Door | North Korea Undercover – Panorama | Fit To Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History | Broadchurch | Battle Scarred: Exit Wounds | Spartacus: War of the Damned | MTV Movie Awards | Live Indian Premier League Cricket

**The Hoarder Next Door*
9pm, Channel 4*

The return of the show in which psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses helps adults tidy their rooms. First up is Alison, who has spent £40,000 on ladybird-themed accessories, until her house resembles an insect zoo. Elsewhere, schoolteacher Jo can't move for puppets and donkey costumes. "I can just about make it into bed," she admits. Like many of Channel 4's Barnum-with-a-heart shows, it comes complete with that tinkly incidental music that puts one in mind of a mischievous Tim Burton hiding behind a bush. Ali Catterall

*North Korea Undercover – Panorama
8.30pm, BBC1*

In a show that will likely be edited at the last moment, considering current tensions, John Sweeney spends eight days undercover inside a land for which the description "police state" seems inadequate. Visiting the capital city, Pyongyang, the countryside beyond and the demilitarised zone on the border with South Korea, Sweeney discovers a country where an elite, frighteningly prepared to beat the drum for nuclear Armageddon, has brainwashed the people for generations. Jonathan Wright

**Fit To Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History*
9pm, BBC2*

The second part of Dr Lucy Worsley's exploration of monarchy and health covers the end of the Stuarts to the rise of the House of Hanover. James II is ditched by parliament, which then installs its own monarch, William III. We learn about Will's poor health – he moved to Hampton Court because of his asthma – as well as the gynaecological problems of his successor, Anne. The effervescent Worsley also investigates George III's manic episodes, and his son's problems with obesity and drugs. Martin Skegg

**Broadchurch*
9pm, ITV*

No previews were available for the final two episodes of Broadchurch, so we can all sit, noses pressed to screen, and find out who dunnit together. Before then, expect more twists and double-backs than a Beth Tweddle routine. It would be nice if DS Miller (Olivia Colman) strode in at the end and solved it after playing second fiddle to David Tennant's DI Hardy all series. Their acting has been rightly praised, but writer Chris Chibnall must also be heaped with acclaim for his densely woven web of misdirection. Julia Raeside

*Battle Scarred: Exit Wounds
10pm, Channel 5*

Chris Terrill is one of the latterday kings of embedded documentary. A kind of Ross Kemp – if Ross Kemp were an intelligent fiftysomething who had been awarded an honorary green beret by the Royal Marine Commandos – the guy can certainly walk it. This he has done in theatres of combat as dangerous as Helmand province and the social circle of Charlotte Church. Here, Terrill examines war's impact on the psychological state of its participants, speaking to ex-soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. John Robinson

**Spartacus: War of the Damned*
10pm, Sky1*

So, after lakes of blood have been shed, hundreds of foes spectacularly slain in stylised slo-mo, and vast acres of largely male, glowing flesh have been displayed on screen, Spartacus reaches its conclusion. From reading our history books we know what that means: Crixus and his army are already defeated. However, the writers have wrought the material bequeathed to them into a sad, yet uplifting ending in keeping with what has been an emotionally involving series, despite its comic-book tendencies. David Stubbs

*2013 MTV Movie Awards
9pm, MTV*

Can't help feeling that, so far after awards season, the MTV movie gongs look a bit like they're just copying what everybody else said. Luckily, there are less stuffy categories, such as Best Kiss and Best Fight. You don't get that at the Golden Globes. Rebel Wilson hosts proceedings, with Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig and Taylor Lautner tussling for the coveted best shirtless performance, while Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson, Anne Hathaway and Mila Kunis chase the more dignified best female performance. Ben Arnold

*Live Indian Premier League Cricket
3pm, ITV4*

The contrast between the half-empty stadiums that framed the recent India v Australia Test series and the packed houses attending the new IPL season represents an alarming ghost of cricket future. The 19th fixture of this tournament pits the handy Super Kings, led by India's beloved captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, against a thus-far underwhelming Warriors, who are perhaps over-reliant on the talents of Sri Lankan all-rounder Angelo Mathews. Andrew Mueller Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.

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