Electric Eel, whilst what you say is, indeed true. Nowhere did anyone mention TV programs testing longbows against modern mail and armour. I've seen plenty of programs on UKTV History and the History Channel and the such like with proper, anal historians recreating armour of all kind using medieval methods and then dressing up a medieval straw dummy in the armour and shooting at it with medieval weapons.

Whilst I agree with everything you say, it's kind of a moot point in this circumstance cause I've definitely seen it done on telly with "the real McCoy"