I agree that this has nothing to do with Turing himself and everything to do with journalistic low standards. However, I don't think it's an effort to fit Turin

I agree that this has nothing to do with Turing himself and everything to do with journalistic low standards. However, I don't think it's an effort to fit Turing into the "forbidden fruit" story, and I really see no snake coming up in this. It's just sensationalism: making each bad story really bad, and each good story really good. It's hard to explain Turing's achievements to non-technical readers anyway. The documentary calls him a codebreaker, which is not exactly why they've named the Turing Award in his honor. But it's much easier to put across to the general public the point about Enigma (he helped win the war!) than about computability (huh?).