Film / TV that most misrepresented reality

[rh100]

Spooks

They outdid themselves with the submarine 'injecting a virus into the internet in an underwater cable because it was outside the firewall of GB'

Still like the show though

 

[Dan B]

All the Star Trek serials apart from the 60s serial. Usual scenario: contrived but inescapable disaster looming. Engineering officer thinks of ingenious, yet inexplicable in laymen's terms, solution to problem with about 20 minutes to go. Solution, incorporating new advance in science, is implemented in 19 minutes, and works first time.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html

At his recent keynote speech at the New York Television Festival, former Star Trek writer and creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore revealed the secret formula to writing for Trek. He described how the writers would just insert "tech" into the scripts whenever they needed to resolve a story or plot line, then they'd have consultants fill in the appropriate words (aka technobabble) later.
"It became the solution to so many plot lines and so many stories," Moore said. "It was so mechanical that we had science consultants who would just come up with the words for us and we'd just write 'tech' in the script.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Spooks

They outdid themselves with the submarine 'injecting a virus into the internet in an underwater cable because it was outside the firewall of GB'

Still like the show though

Better still was MI5 reflecting it back at the Submarine to take down their comms instead (IIRC).

 

[karen.488walker]

Wife / Holiday Swap. No way are those people real!

 

[wafflycat]

Anything by 'reality tv' person Peter Bazalgette. His ancestor took the filth out of London and he's shipped it back in.

 

[longers]

Has anyone mentioned The Flintstones yet?

 

[Mr Pig]

Has anyone mentioned The Flintstones yet?

You don't get to vote, you have cats fighting with lightsabers in your avatar!

 

[Yellow Fang]

On the other hand, Scrapyard Challenge was like my last job.