Degrees of Freedom

Either:

a) A Jonathan Creek-esque detective show which centers around using Statistics and the Law to solve crimes and limit the degrees of freedom of criminals. The protagnist, Constant Justice, lives in a bungalow shaped like the Gaussian distribution.

b) A sitcom revolving around a renowned professor who tries to juggles his demanding PhD students, post docs and family life. He's only got a few degrees of freedom you see...

Copula

A niche sitcom based on the hit BBC comedy Coupling which centers around the dependence nature between a group of Probability and Statistics PhD students and their supervisors. 

Hilarity ensues between the Bayesians, frequentist and probabilist couples! Episodes include "The Conference" and "The Girl with Two Publications" (ED: pube-cations?).

Anomaly: The Upgrades

The University of Haarville is situated peacefully situated in the village of Horsley, just outside of Winchester. Idyllically surrounded by acres of grassland and forests, students roam freely amongst the rabbits and other wildlife.

However, there's a peculiar phenomena occurring at the Department of Computer Science; the number of PhD students progressing from each year always seems to be controlled conveniently. Rather too conveniently if one looked at the numbers carefully. In addition, the wildlife surrounding the campus always increases at the same rate.

New PhD student Wesley finds out the truth about the Department's bizarre culling technique and cultivating the surrounding wildlife. The animals have oddly human characteristics you see...