Britain's Biggest Heists

I noticed this series after running out of Daring Capers episodes. I immediately noticed a big difference between how the cases are presented. Daring Capers tells the story more from the criminals perspective developing their characters and plan for the heist whereas this series is all from the police perspective. I find the former more interesting. I've only seen a couple shows in this series, but the whole hour is taken up mostly by repetitive police accounts of the crime after it was committed. This give the show kind of a dull, after the fact tone and is less interesting than essentially letting the viewer in on the plot before the heist happens. So the series comes off sort of like a cat gloating over a dead mouse. The action is in the heist not all the police talk. The subject is interesting though so for that reason I only subtracted 3 points in the rating. Overall though, a very under-performing series given the fascinating subject matter and catchy title. Daring Capers is only a one-half hour show yet captivates the viewer by shifting the focus from the police accounts to the actual planning and execution of the heist by the criminals in chronological order not after the fact. This approach also gives the criminals their due respect for intelligent planning and the police for discovering it or tracking them down.