It seems like bad shots are WAY too common on TV hunting shows.
(Don't you love seeing arrows penetrate 3 inches deep in the evening, then the "hunters" patting themselves on the back the next morning for their skilled archery ability the next morning after the tracker did all the work finding the animal while the "hunters" slept-in until they got the radio call that the animal has been located???)
I don't think they should even televise bad shot placement, unless they are a precursor to a segment on what NOT to do.
I guess, to a certain extent, many African hunters are probably not really experienced hunters, unfortunately.
(I'm in the fly-fishing outfitter business, and we have clients showing up all the time with stories about fly-fishing fishing all over the world, when they really don't know how to catch a bluegill on an earthworm under a bobber)