National Geographic Channel, 8.30pm
The long and involved operation to break the stranglehold the Hells Angels had on Vancouver in the 1990s is a fascinating story. The stealth of detectives, the courage of informants and the unravelling of a web of criminal activity make for a rollicking real-life cops-and-robbers tale. So splicing together interviews with police, reporters and informants with swaying footage of strippers, motorcycle headlights and drug bags, for an audience presumably suffering from extremely short attention spans, seems entirely unnecessary. Less bad dramatisation and more recollections from those on the front line, including whistleblower Robert Molsberry, miraculously still alive with all his fingers intact, would make for an enjoyable documentary. As it is, this pointlessly beat-up recount of a brazen sting is drawn out and cumbersome and contradicts the attempts of those involved to debunk the myth of the glamorous underworld.