Corrie Kev, Lady Mary and Thomas Cromwell: time to get back into the real world?

Odd, isn't it, how television is becoming ever more important to newspapers, just as the internet is diminishing its influence in the real world?
We get our news from the web and social media;  we watch what we want, when we want, with or without ads, thanks to streaming, satellite, cable and clever recording machines.
Some programmes - Coronation Street is certainly one - remain a feature of millions of people's lives. So it's understandable that  tabloids use the shorthand "Corrie Kev, Corrie Ken, Corrie Rita" when writing about events in real life, even though most fans are likely as familiar with the actors' names as with the characters they play.  
It's partly about quick identification and partly about the count, which is why we get "Corrie Kym" (actress), rather than "Corrie Michelle" (character) and why Michael Le Vell was "Le Vell" in a Mirror heading one day last year and "Corrie Kev" the next.*
This habit of regarding real and fictional names as interchangeable does, however, grate when the story is about a court case or even an actor's death. 
Take a look at the first two splash headings below.  Are they appropriate?

The Sun's too-clever take on the death of Roger Lloyd Pack was so awful and so contrived that it even had to explain the joke. The self-referencing on the death of Anne Kirkbride was perhaps more forgiveable - and it is worth noting that almost everyone else used her real name - but the Sun got in a real muddle the next day with the real Bill and Bev in a bedside vigil for "Deirdre".

Tabloids, soaps: does it matter? Not really, though you have to feel sorry for Michelle Dockery, who must wonder if she will ever be free of Lady bloody Mary. No matter what she does in real life, her alter ego is there with her. Sometimes that woman played by Maggie Smith turns up, too, to wag a finger.
The Mail is besotted with her. When she's not on the front, she's in the feature pages:  "We've lost the art of chivalry, says Downton's Lady Mary"; 
"Donwnton's Lady Mary: corsets stop you slacking"
Downton, like Coronation Street, enjoys an audience of some seven or eight million, so let's cut the subs some slack there. 

But look at those two fronts from today at the top of this post. The Sun thinks that the fact Ant and Dec can't imagine Ed Miliband as Prime Minister is significant. It not only splashes on the remark, but also runs a leader to explain itself. This is the dilemma facing Labour voters, it says. There may be the germ of a valid point lurking somewhere, but the political opinions of a couple of cheeky chappie television presenters do not represent an "election bombshell". 
The Telegraph meanwhile has a photograph of the actor Mark Rylance at a film premiere under the headline "What's Thomas Cromwell plotting now?" Very little, I should imagine, since Cromwell was beheaded 475 years ago. 
There comes a point when it's time to grow up and rejoin the real world.

* From glam to glum: By the way, it's interesting to see how the Mirror's approach to this story developed between Barbara Knox's arrest in April last year and sentence after a belated guilty plea last month.