Ross Kemp unearths the real Hatton Garden heist story

Telly Today: Friday May 24th and Ross Kemp is looking into a quite famous OAP heist.

One to Watch: Hatton Garden: The Inside Story, ITV, STV, UTV, 9pm Following the ITV drama actor and presenter Ross Kemp tonight tells the untold story of the police investigation into the Hatton Garden Heist – Britain’s biggest burglary. Interviewing key officers, and using unseen police surveillance footage and the gang’s secretly recorded conversations the film takes us inside one of the Flying Squad’s longest and most challenging operations, ending in the conviction of the final gang member in April this year.   As well revealing the inner workings of the investigation, the film sheds new light on the gang themselves with the first ever television interview with Kenny Collins – the gang’s lookout – as he tells the inside story of the burglary and their conviction for the very first time. Over the past four weeks ITV has aired ‘Hatton Garden’ – their drama based on the real events dramatised by acclaimed BAFTA winning screenwriter Jeff Pope. Hatton Garden depicted the audacious jewellery, gold and cash burglary at the heart of London’s diamond district executed by an elderly gang of career criminals across the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in April 2015. Timothy Spall OBE, Kenneth Cranham and Brían F. O’Byrne played the leading roles. Fellow actors David Hayman, Alex Norton, Geoff Bell join them to play the men responsible for the daring raid. Ian Puleston-Davies and Nasser Memarzia also starred. The hour long episodes told the story of how the men pulled off the heist which was considered in a class of its own in terms of scale and ambition, and the extraordinary level of planning, preparation and organisation required to penetrate the vault of the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Company. From this fictional depiction ITV turn tonight to the reality of it all with former EastEnders and Emmerdale actor Ross Kemp looking into the events that have so far lead to the television saga as well as two movies. Ross Kemp, tonight at 9pm on ITV.

Puppy School, Channel 4, 8pm

Set against the spectacular backdrop of Chatsworth House and run by three of the UK’s leading dog experts – Oli Juste, Katie Patmore and Hannah Molloy – each episode a new class of puppy parents from across the country enrol.

Tonight Dinah from Birmingham received her puppy Bambi as a present from her boyfriend to lift the spirits after her MS diagnosis. But Dinah is so protective of her precious pint-sized pup, her boyfriend isn’t getting a look-in. Katie from Bolton needs help with her English bulldog, who’s biting her five year old. And ex-army Alan hopes his chocolate Labrador puppy will help him adjust after his wife passed away. Alan needs Puppy School to help him and Molly get out and about with confidence.

The Looming Tower, BBC Two, 9.30pm

In the fifth edition of The Looming Tower we’re now into late December 1999 and concern over potential technology failure at the turn of the millennium vies with fear of terrorism.

The security services are on high alert. A border incident nets a potential bomb-maker who provides the FBI with the details of his Brooklyn contact, Abdul Ghani Meskini (Fehd Benchemsi). Meskini is placed under surveillance as an informant tells agents Floyd Bennet (Sullivan Jones) and Kathy Shaughnessy (Virginia Kull) that he moves money for al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Alec Station, now run by Diane Marsh (Wrenn Schmidt), learns that Saudi citizen Khalid al-Mihdhar (Tawfeek Barhom), ‘en route’ to Kuala Lumpur, has a US Visa in his passport. The FBI’s go-betweens, Vince Stuart (Louis Cancelmi) and Toni-Ann Marino (Jamie Neumann), clash over whether they should share this info with John O’Neill (Jeff Daniels) when Diane denies them permission.

She’s Gotta Have It, streaming on Netflix

A seriously sexy comedy and rousing celebration of female empowerment, She’s Gotta Have It returns for its second series. The show once again offers a timely and topical portrait of rising talents, with free-spirited artist Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) at the center.

Struggling with newfound success this season, against a backdrop of black art and culture, Nola must decide if she will remain true to her creative ideals or give in to the corporate world. Her journey of self-discovery helps transform the lives of those around her, including friend and sometimes lover Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos), who sets out to pursue his true passion of music as well as her inner circle of Opal (Ilfenesh Hadera), Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent), Clorinda Bradford (Margot Bingham), Shemekka Epps (Chyna Layne) and Winnie Win (Fat Joe). Their journey expands to new destinations this season beyond their home base of Fort Greene, the vibrant Brooklyn enclave, that continues to evolve and change as gentrification remakes the neighborhood.