Dumbing Downe

One would say, just because it is the BBC doesn't mean it isn't as silly as American TV.

We have a history program discussing the 1644 conflict with the King's Royalists and Oliver Cromwell with a loverly sweeping aerial shot of the Clock Tower (Big Ben) representing Cromwell's Parliamentarian forces.

Nevermind that Big Ben was built in 1858.

It's kind of like using the Eiffel Tower to symbolize Napolean or Lincoln Center for the US Civil War.