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** During the first re-run airing of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' on TNT, the promo for Season 2 Episode 1 featured a voiceover saying that "Sherman's In Charge!" (the incoming character's name is "Sheridan")
* The ''Sun'' accused [[The BBC]] of anti-Conservative bias (they support the Conservative Party) in a children's show, specifically ''The Basil Brush Show''. An episode involved a character named Dave cheating in an attempt to win a school election and using a blue rosette (traditionally worn by Conservatives at elections). This was viewed as an attack on the Conservative leader, David Cameron. They would have had a good argument - if not for the fact that the episode was a repeat (a fact mentioned by the paper's own TV guide) and their screenshot proves its age by showing the character in question as a child. Whether they were saying it was originally filmed as a [[Take That]] at Mr. Cameron or just that the Beeb took advantage of the coincidence isn't certain.
* Something somewhere on the net said that Richard Hatch played Lee Adama in the
* Whoever wrote the Dutch and French episode descriptions featured in the collector's edition DVD boxes of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' probably only glanced at the English ones. "The Prom" is supposedly about hellhounds that have escape from Oz's chemistry laboratory. In reality it's about hellhounds who are released by a guy Oz has chemistry class with. Big difference.
* Several morning news shows took a segment of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' where Stephen Colbert asked Democratic Congressional candidate Robert Wexler (running unopposed in his district) campaign-killing questions ("Fill in the blank: I enjoy cocaine because...") seriously, comparing it to an earlier segment where Colbert exposed a candidate who decried the separation of church and state and yet couldn't name all of the Ten Commandments and asking, "Why do politicians keep going on ''The Colbert Report'' when it makes them look foolish?" [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182106/july-25-2006/morning-shows Needless to say, Colbert took them down a notch].
** Wonderfully deconstructed in one episode where Stephen quoted a scientist working on the Large Hadron Collider as saying: "What did they say in ''[[Star Wars]]''? We’re going where no man has ever been? Well, that’s where we’re going." Stephen Colbert protests that it's fairly obvious that it came from ''[[Star Trek]]'', and that the quote is "boldly go where no man has gone before". [[One of Us|He then says that we need more nerds as scientists]].
** Let's not leave out [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181944/june-07-2006/balrog the nerdiest call-out of all time]. Some CNN reporters needed a stock image of Satan as the backdrop for their <s>encouragement</s> coverage of the 06/06/06 "hysteria." They used an illustration of the Balrog from a 1977 [[The Lord of the Rings]] calendar, prompting Stephen to explain, "Devils and Balrogs are totally different. Devils are angels who refused to serve God and instead followed Satan into hell. ''Balrogs'' are ''Maiar'' who refused to serve ''Eru'' and instead followed ''Morgoth'' into ''Thangorodrim''. Get your facts straight, CNN!" The best part? Stephen noticed it himself. He just happened to recognize the illustration because ''[[One of Us|he has the calendar]]'' (It's a [http://www.amazon.com/1977-J-R-R-TOLKIEN-CALENDAR-Hildebrandt/dp/0345251350 highly collectible calendar]).
* TV Guide seems to enjoy mixing up actors' names and characters' names. One example- calling Joe Mantegna's ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' character David Rossi "Joe Rossi" in a spoiler article.
* ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]'' published a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/14/beginners-guide-to-csi "beginner's guide"] to the ''[[CSI]]'' franchise, starting with the main characters: Dr Raymond Langston, Detective Mac Taylor... and Lieutenant Horatio Nelson.
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* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''[[The Daily Show]]''. Jon Stewart talks about how reporters claim that Hillary Clinton has bones of steel. Jon then remarks that this is like comic book character, [[Wolverine]]. Suddenly, a nerd comes out of the studio and informs Jon that Wolverine's bones are made of adamantium, not steel. (Actually they're bone coated in adamantium. The adamantium was added later)
** Something similar happened on the MTV Movie Awards a few years back. Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen were about to announce an award when a 'nerd' in the audience stands up to yell at them about turning the adult male character Banshee into a little girl in ''[[X-Men (film)|X2]]''. Jackman and Janssen quickly reply that the character is ''obviously'' his daughter, Siryn, putting the nerd in his place.
** Somewhat similar to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110417140020/http://www.hulu.com/watch/1502/saturday-night-live-natalie-portman-monologue Natalie Portman's SNL monologue.]
*** Jon Stewart got this done to him as well -- Tucker Carlson was complaining about the host of the Daily Show, whom he referred to as "Jon Daily." Maybe he was thinking of the host of ''[[What's My Line?|What's My Line]]''
** Unfortunately played straight when Wyatt Cenac used [[Professional Wrestling]] as an analogy for Congressional filibustering, and referred to [[Shawn Michaels]] as being the good guy, and [[The Undertaker]] as the bad guy, as they were midway through an epic Wrestlemania feud at the time. In fact, they were both "good guys". Michaels was technically the [[Heel]] (bad guy) of the two, though.
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** A documentary about science fiction credited the creation of the series to Terry Nation. Nation created the Daleks, not the series.
*** ''[[The BBC]]'' made that mistake. In Nation's obituary, no less. It's also listed in at least one edition of Trivial Pursuit. ''Doctor Who'' is actually one of a few shows that was created by a committee of people, and not one sole person. If you want to be really technical, the single person that could be best described as the "creator" of the show out of that committee is [[Sydney Newman]].
** Picking up the false description of the Face of Boe as a villain, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071010083607/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article25126.ece here] is an actual article, for the 2007 series, describing the "evil Boe" as the Doctor's "arch-enemy." Not only was the character never a villain, but by this appearance, the character is a friend of the Doctor's and they've met amicably several times.
*** Pretty much every returning alien tends to be described as a bad guy by tabloids, irrespective of whether they were good, bad or neutral in their original appearance. Ood Sigma was another example from the same newspaper, who described him as "The Doctor's old enemy, Ood Sigma" when reporting on ''The End of Time''. It should go without saying, but Ood Sigma was ''not'' a villain in his original appearance, and in fact the only non-hostile Ood in the episode.
*** Tabloids also forget that a returning alien is actually returning. In the run-up to ''A Good Man Goes To War'', Dorium (a character with only a few minutes on screen who was part of the Doctor's 'army') was made out to be [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E12 The Pandorica Opens|a new alien]] and, as is traditional, the villain of the episode.
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* To those who are not [[Toku]] fans but know ''[[Power Rangers]]'', they will immediately point out that any non-''[[Super Sentai]]'' tokusatsu hero is a "Power Ranger".
** During the murder trial of Skylar Deleon, much was made in the news of him having been a "star" of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', thus leading many to believe he actually played one of the Rangers. He was a guest star. In '''one''' episode.
** Taken to ridiculous levels with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-b22sqPZrA Engine-Oh G12]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501002103/http://i.gizmodo.com/5147344/the-japanese-giant-robot-show-to-end-all-giant-robot-shows#c10548197 A] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120928062528/http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2009/02/new-robot-anime-features-ultimate-12man-transformer.html couple] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151003/http://theawesomer.com/video-engine-oh-g12/9503/ sites] saw this clip, and this clip alone, and thought it was a Transformers-ripoff series named "Engine-Oh G12". It took a ''lot'' of fan correction to get them to finally change their coverage. Not to mention the amount of comments talking about a Power Rangers ripoff -- one commenter says it wouldn't ever fly in America. {{[[[Power Rangers RPM]] cough}}]
*** For those who don't know, Engine-Oh G12 is one formation of the mecha in ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'', whose footage is used in ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''.
** And even crazier is when the entire series is mentioned in an encyclopedia of TV shows. Needless to say, there are a ton of mistakes: ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'' were both omitted, the names of the characters, actors, and even ''an entire season'' were changed, plots were wrong, and ''Time Force'' was treated as something based on ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' (when, in fact, it wasn't). [http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=135020 You can see the entire laundry list of mistakes here.]
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** Mitigated somewhat in that Captain Janeway's first name ''was'' Elizabeth at one point in pre-production; they could simply have been using an old source. But as mentioned, it's a flimsy excuse; a single Google would've provided the right answer.
* It's not uncommon for a ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode description in the news to refer to the [[Monster of the Week]] as a "demon". Demons are only one specific type of creature in ''Supernatural'': they appear as black smoke when bodiless and they possess people, manifesting black eyes (occasionally red or white) when provoked. Monsters in general =/= demons, unlike in, say, ''Buffy'' and ''Angel''.
** The ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160415030205/http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Supernatural_Wiki Supernatural Wiki]'' had episode 8 of Season Seven listed as "Time for a Wedding", under an editor's pet theory that the title "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" was a typo in the CW press release. This is despite the fact that the title "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" appears onscreen in the episode itself after the funny wedding cake animation is over, confirming it as the correct title. Attempts to point out the mistake were actually met with hostility.
* In-universe example in ''[[That '70s Show]]'' when Jackie wanted to go to a Led Zeppelin concert, saying that she thinks "Led is hot."
* Whenever Michael Brea (the guy who infamously killed his mother with a sword) is mentioned in news articles, it mentions that he was an actor on [[Ugly Betty]]. In reality he was an extra in a single scene
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* After [[Top Gear]] gave a horrible beating to a Italian car, the CEO of the company that made it demanded that the company pull all advertisement on the "channel that Top Gear is on," in retaliation. Top Gear airs on the advertisement free BBC.
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