Yeah, that does piss me off. A lot of shows do it because the media groups all snakes together as either giant constrictors or venomous.

Honestly, they probably had a nonvenomous snake because the expo or state didn't allow venomous species. However, if that was the case, they'd have been better off not having a live example at all. In fact it would have been awesome for them to have a photographic guide to venomous species so people could learn about it.