Leaving The EU: BBC News Special (BBC1, 10pm)
IT’S a day we were hoping would never come. Today Britain will leave the EU after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal was backed by MPs in the wake of the general election. However, not everything
is cut and dried, as Britain is now due to enter an 11-month transition period. Huw Edwards hosts a special edition of BBC News and there’s also coverage on STV, which is bringing viewers its own countdown to the big moment.
Deadwater Fell (C4, 9pm)
YOU can run but you can’t hide from David Tennant this week. Apart from starring in the conversion of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel Good Omens on BBC Two, he’s on top form in this gripping thriller. This week, as the villagers try to rebuild their lives, they have to learn to be honest with themselves and each other. However, whether they ever get to the truth remains to be seen. Cush Jumbo, Matthew McNulty and Anna Madeley star in the concluding part of Daisy Coulam’s dark drama.
Stewart Copeland: Adventures In Music (BBC Four, 9.30pm)
TO conclude his three-part series, the Police drummer explores the transcendental powers of music and asks why do certain sounds have the ability to move people, transport the mind and help us escape this world, if only briefly? He travels to Morocco to discover the polyrhythms of Gnawa and to Wells Cathedral, where he spent time as a child, to understand the mechanics of choral polyphony. He also meets Kanye West collaborator Caroline Shaw to examine the powers of melody and CeCe Winans to discuss the roots of gospel. Finally, Copeland heads to New York and visits minimalist master Steve Reich.
The Last Leg: Brexit Special (C4, 10pm)
IT’S hard to raise a smile, but for a bit of light relief there’s The Last Leg team of Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker who are conducting their own Brexit countdown. They’re joined by Armando Iannucci, who’s behind the influential news spoof The Day Today and the savage sitcom The Thick Of It. He has also tackled US politics on TV in Veep and communist Russia in the blackly funny movie The Death of Stalin.
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