For the television series meme, it's just a byproduct of what each sector is:<br>Engineering is very applied, so there's plenty of physical and visual things you can put on screen from manufacture to result<br>Physics is more conceptual, so while there are less physical demonstrations (apart from those shared with the above) there are still plenty of things to see (space, lasers, etc)<br>Maths is very conceptual and is thus very difficult to make into a "TV show" which doesn't make the viewer feel that they are being sat down by a teacher showing how 4D space works.<br><br>I am just pointing out the difficulty of Maths for a TV series, not saying that it would be impossible. Maybe we do need more maths TV shows of fictional blobs flipping coins to finally have people understand probabilities.