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Entertainment
Mike Bradley, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett

Tonight’s TV: Britain’s Brexit shambles unscrambled

Nick Robinson presents Britain’s Brexit Crisis
Nick Robinson presents Britain’s Brexit Crisis. Photograph: Joe Taylor/BBC

Britain’s Brexit Crisis
9pm, BBC One

The first task of the nation’s new prime minister (whose identity will be disclosed on Tuesday 23 July following the final Conservative members’ ballot) will be to find a solution to Britain’s Brexit shambles. To help us comprehend the history and scale of the problem, Nick Robinson invites politicians and negotiators on both sides of the Channel to volunteer their interpretations of the key events, mistakes and miscalculations that made Theresa May postpone Brexit and led to her being ousted from office. Mike Bradley

Serengeti
8pm, BBC One

Elephants in Serengeti
Anthropomorphism on a grand scale ... Serengeti. Photograph: Richard Jones/BBC/John Downer Productions

All the animals can sense the great migration approaching in tonight’s chapter of this “dramatised story”. Elephants wallow after the deluge; lioness Kali slavers in anticipation of a wildebeest feast; and baboon Bakari risks his neck for crocodile eggs. Anthropomorphism on a grand scale. MB

Britain’s Greatest National Treasures
8.30pm, ITV

Sir Trevor McDonald and Julia Bradbury host this countdown of the nation’s favourite landmarks. There are celebrity picks along the way, with Eamonn Holmes sharing his love for the Giant’s Causeway. And McDonald looks at Big Ben, whose bongs have soundtracked his career. Hannah Verdier

Catch-22
9pm, Channel 4

Awol in Rome, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) seeks out Clara the sex worker with some bad news to deliver and “good old Aarfy” reveals his true nature in one of this miniseries’s most bleakly horrific scenes. But wartime justice is hard to come by on these chaotic streets, if indeed it exists at all. Ellen E Jones

The Other Two
10pm, E4

Season one of the snarky and sometimes surreal pop satire wraps up with musical youth Chase about to make his live debut at the MTV VMAs with his whiffy banger Stink. Will siblings Brooke and Cary be able to piggyback his success? With a second season already confirmed, they have a lot invested in their little bro. Graeme Virtue

A Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision
10.35pm, BBC One

Reporter Adnan Sarwar was circumcised by his Muslim parents as an infant. In this inquiring film he investigates the operation and its safety, consulting clerics and medics on both side of the debate, asking: is it an outmoded practice or an expression of cultural and religious freedoms – and should we ban it in the UK? MB

Film choice

Clever and creepy … Jared Harris and Olivia Cooke in The Quiet Ones.
Clever and creepy … Jared Harris and Olivia Cooke in The Quiet Ones.
Photograph: Allstar/Exclusive Media Group

The Quiet Ones (John Pogue, 2014), 1am, Channel 4
This product of the reborn Hammer Films is set in 1974, with Olivia Cooke’s apparently possessed Jane – a Regan-of-The Exorcist in the making – locked up for study by Oxford professor of the paranormal Jared Harris; Sam Claflin is the cameraman increasingly perturbed by the experiment. Clever and creepy. Paul Howlett

Sport choice

Golf: The Open 6.30am, Sky Sports golf. The first day’s play from Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

Cycling: Tour de France 10am, Eurosport 1; 10.30am, ITV4. Toulouse to Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

T20 Blast Cricket: Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Worcestershire Rapids 6.45pm, Sky Sports Cricket.

North Division encounter.

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