Old English/New Mistake

"Monday on 'Good Morning Jacksonville,' the works of Shakespeare were done in Old English, but one performance troupe has found a way to translate it into hip hop."

The above quote is from a commercial that aired during Saturday's "Jeopardy!" I caught one grammatical error (the antecedent for "it" is "the works of Shakespeare") and one factual error (Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English). I don't think I can deal with journalism such as this at 6AM on Monday.