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* [[http://cartoonman.info/2013/07/06/japanese-how-to-treat-animated-imitation/ An article about imitating cartoons]] calls ''Franchise/KamenRider'' one, when it's actually a live-action show featuring PeopleInRubberSuits.

* ''Series/MillionDollarMoneyDrop'': This Creator/{{FOX}} game show goofed up a "which came first?" question and said Post-it Notes were introduced in 1980 (after the Sony Walkman in '79), despite being test marketed under a different name in 1977. Due to the mechanics of the show, the affected contestants lost an $800,000 ''wager'' that Post-its were the right answer. But then, everyone else, even the ''contestants themselves'' said that the network should give them the $800,000, despite the fact that it was only ''a bet'', and even if this hadn't happened, the last question still [[ShootTheShaggyDog killed them anyway]]!

[[folder:Star Trek franchise]]

* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':

* The TV Guide had the habit of describing ''every'' episode of the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' as "The Enterprise is in danger while Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] are on an away mission." Granted, this isn't actually all that inaccurate for most of the episodes.
** And TOS sent "landing parties," not "away missions."
* French newspapers routinely write orthography "Star Treck" (and, less frequently, Spok). Never mind that "Trek" is [[GratuitousEnglish commonly used in French]] while "Treck" does not mean anything.
* Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's Network and Cable TV Guide, which gives full plot descriptions for each television series, described the events of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s second season as Seska leading an insurrection (true) and "wooing Chakotay in the process (not true; the two of them had a relationship while they were still in the Maquis, but broke it off), but that she later turned out to be a genetically modified ''Kazon''. It also describes Kazons as "a warrior race." First, Seska was a genetically modified ''Cardassian'', which makes sense as she is from the Alpha Quadrant, as are Cardassians. ''Kazons'' are a Delta Quadrant race that had never heard of ''Voyager'' or the Federation in general, so how could they have planted Seska within the Maquis? Also, they're not a mere "warrior race", but a race specifically modeled off of urban street gangs.
** A French TV Guide described the plot of a Voyager episode as Janeway sending "a Chakotay and a team" on a planet.
* A paper treated the two-hour pilot of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' as the ninth Star Trek ''movie''. Therefore, it was described like that: ''"Star Trek 9: Deep Space"''. There's also a matter of many papers thinking that "Star Trek" is the name of the "titular" ship(s)...
** At the time said pilot was first aired in 1993, only six ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies existed.
** "Sisko" means "sister" in Finnish, and this being a bilingual country, many episode descriptions of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' in Swedish language spoke of "the sister" needing to do this or that.
** When [[Creator/NetworkTen Eleven]] began airing ''Deep Space Nine'' in early 2013, ''TV Week'' magazine printed a "[[https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/l/t1.0-9/541568_10200449066972058_110724177_n.jpg?oh=3163155acd404b6614a4d7feb61da564&oe=590692B7 cheat sheet]]" for the series, which not only used a cast photo from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', it claimed that ''TNG'' was set on board the USS ''Defiant''.
* A local news anchor giving a review of one of the ''Next Generation'' movies described the crew with the phrase "...and the alien Data", even giving the alternate, but inaccurate pronunciation of "Data".
---> '''Dr. Pulaski:''' Thank you, Data ''(pronounced "Dah-Tuh")''
---> '''Data:''' Data. ''(pronounced "Day-Tuh")''
---> '''Dr. Pulaski:''' What's the difference?
---> '''Data:''' One is my name. The other is not.
** The mispronunciation (and maybe the inaccurate adjective) might be the result of the news anchor reading from a teleprompter. In any case, the person clearly wasn't familiar with the series.
** A British newspaper once described the Next Generation episode "Tin Man" thusly in their weekly TV guide: "The ''Enterprise'' races to a meeting with the Sentiens." While the living spaceship Gumtuu/"Tin Man" ''was'' a sentience, the author clearly had no idea what the word meant and thought it applied to a specific alien race. (Possibly also a phonetic issue.)
** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlSQiYnDLI behind-the-scenes video]] of the production of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' from Paramount+ mislabels clips from ''The Next Generation'' as ''The New Generation''.
** The ''Magazine/{{Interzone}}'' magazine review of ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' criticized the film for trying to create drama through the off-screen death of two relatives of Picard who had clearly been created just for this purpose, as though the audience would care about characters they'd never seen. While there's a case to be made their deaths were a bit cheap, Robert and Rene Picard had appeared in the episode "Family."
** Similarly, the ''SFX'' review of the novel ''Literature/Section31Rogue'' asks why writers keep making up new characters who were at the Academy with Picard. Not only are the two guest characters in the novel the same ones from the flashbacks in "Tapestry", but the novel continually refers to those events!
* [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24theatct.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesTheater This]] review of a production of ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'' starring Kate Mulgrew incorrectly stated that Mulgrew's ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' character, Kathryn Janeway, was "Elizabeth Janeway". JustForFun/{{Egregious}} for three reasons: 1) this is the friggin' ''New York Times'', 2) ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is incredibly well documented by fanboys and putting "Captain Janeway" in a search engine would have instantly brought up the correct name, and 3) Mulgrew is a prime example of TheDanza, and Janeway's first name is a homonym Mulgrew's full first name, Katherine.
** 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 search would've provided the correct name.
* A more egregious example of the above was the character of Miles Edward O'Brien being referred to as Michael Robert O'Brian... on a caption at the ''"Star Trek: The Exhibition"'' exhibit at London's Science Museum in 1995.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'':
** Creator/BryanFuller announced early on that the series would break with established ''Trek'' tradition in that the lead character would not be the captain, but a lieutenant commander. It would seem traditions die hard. When it was announced that Sonequa Martin-Green had been hired to play the lead character, numerous online news outlets announced that she would be playing "the captain" or would write headlines like "''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}'' Star Sonequa Martin-Green will Command CBS's ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''." [[note]]At the end of season three, Martin-Green's character becomes captain of ''Discovery'', so they were right eventually.[[/note]]
** Similarly, when it was announced that Jason Isaacs had signed for the series, playing the actual captain of the USS ''Discovery'', there were umpteen articles assuming the series would revolve around his character as well.
** The first role announced for the series was Michelle Yeoh, who would be playing Captain Georgiou of the USS ''Shenzhou'', another ship that would have a large role in the first season of the show. Several outlets reported that she would be playing "Number One", or that her character would be in command of the ''Discovery''.
*** In fact, Yeoh's character is killed in the ''second'' episode. A ''different'' character played by Yeoh is introduced halfway through season 1, and she does end up playing a large role in both this and the following season.
** In the press coverage of the Blue Carpet premiere of ''Discovery'', British magazine the ''Independent'' added insult to injury by claiming Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays central character Michael Burnham, was the "first black lead" of any ''Star Trek'' series. [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Avery Brooks]] fans took to Twitter faster than you could say "Sisko."
** To say nothing of ''one of the showrunners'' saying something in an interview to the effect that it was high time they had a black woman in the main cast. Excuse me, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Nyota]] [[Film/StarTrek2009 Uhura]] would like a word...
** When character descriptions were finally released, Trekkers lost their minds over the idea that lead character Michael Burnham (played by the aforementioned Green) was Spock's adoptive sister. Now, regardless of whether or not it's plausible that [[{{Retcon}} Spock would have an adoptive sister he never mentioned at all, even in private conversations with his closest friend James Kirk]], the amount of tweets and articles from professional sources suggesting she was Spock's "half-sister" or even ''full'' sister were inexcusable, and likely fueled the nerdrage fire.
** Sonequa Martin-Green has been described many times as playing ''Star Trek'''s first black woman captain. Given that she only achieves that rank at the end of the show's third season, she wasn't even the first ''regular'' female captain, which was Dawnn Lewis, as ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Lower Decks]]'' had introduced Captain Freeman nearly a full year before. The ''actual'' first black woman captain in ''Star Trek'' was the captain of the USS Saratoga played by Madge Sinclair in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', over ''thirty years'' earlier.
* Although the actual writer seems better informed, the headline writer of [[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/27/star-trek-picard-is-the-dark-reboot-that-boldly-goes-where-nobody-wanted-it-to this]] negative review of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' describes the series as a "dark [[ContinuityReboot reboot]]", when it's totally in continuity with past ''Trek'' shows, almost to the point of ContinuityPorn fanservice at times.

* The Creator/SkyOne continuity announcer, introducing the ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' episode "American Dreamer", said "Supergirl is pretending to be a journalist called Kara so she can clear her name". "Pretending" isn't exactly the right word; Supergirl ''[[SecretIdentity is]]'' a journalist called Kara.

** An August 2013 episode had Creator/JohnOliver blow up when Creator/{{CNN}} made the outrageous assumption that billionaire Elon Musk was the inspiration for [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], when ''Iron Man'' first appeared in comics in 1963 and Musk was born 8 years later.

* When the new series was being relaunched and the word was getting out that Rose would be a bit of an ActionGirl, many news outlets compared her to Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}} (which is fair enough, so did RTD), and contrasted her with the pre-''Buffy'' companions on the old show, who were apparently all helpless screamers. No female companion has ever been ''consistently'' written as a DistressedDamsel who doesn't contribute to the plot except to provide the Doctor with someone to rescue and explain things to, and several have ''never'' been written that way.

* Happened on this very site for the longest time. Any time the final episode "Closing Up Shop" was mentioned on it, it would be mentioned that it ended the series on a downer note, with [[spoiler: the shop being closed forever and the toys being sold off]]. However, after the episode was released on Website/YouTube, it became clear that while that DOES come close to happening in the episode, at the end, [[spoiler: Agatha sells all her hats to the customers who bought the toys in exchange for returning them to the shop, and the host of a presumed local kid's show promises to give the shop free publicity on his show]].

** The BBC deliberately sows misinformation about upcoming stories, up to and including fake scripts. The tabloids still fall for this.

* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'': A 1987 episode, where one of the categories was about defunct newspapers, referred to the recently stopped publication the ''UsefulNotes/StLouis Globe-Democrat''. When the episode was produced, the newspaper indeed was not publishing ... but by the time the show aired, a new owner had been found and production had resumed. The publisher was very angry when he saw the episode and, in not too kind words, demanded a retraction be aired on the show immediately. The newspaper in question had also published a long, rambling editorial, misspelling Creator/AlexTrebek's name in a large-font, front-page headline and throughout the copy. The show's question writers complied and indeed it was selected (in a show later during the 1987-1988 season). But as it turned out, the ''''Globe-Democrat's return was short-lived, and by the time the new episode aired, the newspaper had once again ceased publication, this time for good.

* The July 8th 2015 episode of Creator/{{ITV}} GameShow Series/TheChase featured the question "Ash Ketchum is a character from which [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} video game series]]?" Except that Ash Ketchum is from the Anime, not the games.
* The Creator/ITV quiz show ''Tipping Point'' once asked "Statistically the most depressing day of the year, Blue Monday falls in which month?". Even the most cursory fact-checking would have told them that this was a complete fiction made up to advertise a travel agency. Using it as the basis of a supposedly factual question is like assuming the Honey Monster is a real animal. A very similar question making the same error later also turned up on ''Series/{{Pointless}}''.

* [[https://imdb.com/title/tt14351160/ This page]] about the April 9, 2021 episode of ''Good Morning America'' says that Prince Phillip was born in 1991 instead of 1921.

* At Paraguayan singer impersonating talent show ''Yo me llamo'' a contestant performed the song ''Jueves'' as La Oreja de Van Gogh frontwoman Amaia Montero... who actually had exited the band and been replaced by Leire Martínez long before ''Jueves'' was released.

* One of the questions in ''Nul Points: The Unofficial [[Series/EurovisionSongContest Eurovision]] Quiz Book'' is "Which country won Eurovision in 1982?", with the options of Portugal, Norway, France or Malta. Germany won it that year.

** Because of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings the movies]], some critics on Youtube have this misconception that the Elves of the Second Age should already be this wise and dignified creatures, when in canon they were anything but that in the Second Age. The show certainly took a lot of things wrong about them, but them being proud and flawed it ain't a mistake.

* [[https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2083148/hollywood-adaptation-crazy-rich-asians-has-cast-its-chinese-male A South China Morning Post article]] criticized the casting of Creator/JessicaHenwick as [[Characters/MCUDefenders Colleen Wing]] in ''[[Series/IronFist2017 Iron Fist]]'' as another example of [[ButNotTooForeign half-Asian actors getting in fully Asian roles]], even though the character is mixed-race in both the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and [[Characters/DaughtersOfTheDragon in the comics]].[[note]]Henwick is of English and Chinese descent while Wing has an American father and a Japanese mother.[[/note]] What's even more appalling is that the article's writer even calls Wing a Japanese character despite having a very English last name.

* [[https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2083148/hollywood-adaptation-crazy-rich-asians-has-cast-its-chinese-male A ''South China Morning Post'' article]] criticized the casting of Creator/JessicaHenwick as [[Characters/MCUDefenders Colleen Wing]] in ''Series/IronFist2017'' as another example of [[ButNotTooForeign half-Asian actors getting in fully Asian roles]], even though the character is mixed-race in both the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and [[Characters/DaughtersOfTheDragon in the comics]].[[note]]Henwick is of English and Chinese descent while Wing has an American father and a Japanese mother.[[/note]] What's even more appalling is that the article's writer even calls Wing a Japanese character despite having a very English last name.

* [[https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2083148/hollywood-adaptation-crazy-rich-asians-has-cast-its-chinese-male A ''South China Morning Post'' article]] criticized the casting of Creator/JessicaHenwick as [[Characters/MCUDefenders Colleen Wing]] as another example of [[ButNotTooForeign half-Asian actors getting in fully Asian roles]] even though the character is mixed-race in both the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and [[Characters/DaughtersOfTheDragon in the comics]].[[note]]Henwick is of English and Chinese descent while Wing has an American father and a Japanese mother.[[/note]] What's even more appalling is that the article's writer even calls Wing a Japanese character despite having a very English last name.

* ''Series/StillStanding'': In the episode "Still Bill's Dad": Bill tries to back out of a bow hunting trip with his father by telling him that he ordered a ProfessionalWrestling Pay-Per-View called ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Slugfest''. There are two things wrong with this:
** The episode aired in 2004, WCW closed in 2001.
** WCW never had a PPV called ''Slugfest''.

* The ''Sun'' accused Creator/TheBBC of anti-Conservative bias (they support the Conservative Party[[note]]although they have supported the Labour Party at times[[/note]]) 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 TakeThat at Mr. Cameron or just that the Beeb took advantage of the coincidence isn't certain.

** [[https://actualidad.tuamc.tv/archivo-canalpanda/especial-halloween-en-canal-panda/ This article]] about a special Halloween programming block on Canal Panda will air a special episode of Donkey Hodie's European Spanish dub about Halloween. The problem is that although a Halloween special for the show exists, it was not part of said dub, as [[UnfinishedDub only 40 segments were dubbed]] before Canal Panda ceased operations in Spain.

* ''Series/PressYourLuck'': A 1985 episode featured the question: "Which well-known cartoon character is famous for uttering the immortal words 'Sufferin Succotash!'?" The correct answer: WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. At least that's how it was given during the question round. By the end of the episode, the error was discovered and the producers managed to get a hold of Creator/MelBlanc, who, via telephone, acted out a skit with the host wherein Sylvester angrily pointed out the gaffe. The two losing contestants were invited back on later episodes.