Anyone who relies on television for an accurate representation of history (or any subject, for that matter!) is missing the big picture.
It's easy to pick on TV. Go ahead and put the 'hate' on it. It's easy to pick on books too. We recently proved that books couldn't be relied on. The internet was wrong too. The big picture can include television accounts. Motion pictures can give us some of the only true depictions of history. It can also include books and the internet. Anyone who excludes TV/motion pictures from the big picture of history is leaving out an important part of the big picture.