The Heist is a British Reality television competition series produced by Shine TV that began airing on Sky One in the UK in 2018.
The programme, similar in format to Hunted (which is also produced by Shine TV), is a competition between a group of ordinary citizens (“The Thieves”) and a team of former police and intelligence officers (“The Detectives”).
The Detectives are told only that a robbery has occurred and then use legal investigative techniques and resources (interviews with the public, access to CCTV feeds and mobile phone records of suspects, vehicle license plate tracking, etc.)
[1] In Series One, ten Thieves have the opportunity to take up to £250,000 (in notes and coins) from an unattended armoured car.
Each Thief can have an accomplice (friend or family member) drive them away from the “heist” to a location where the money taken will be equally divided (“the slaughter”).