NEW YORK (AP) — Just in time for tax season, here’s accountant Andy Barker opening his own brand-new office.Unfortunately, he isn’t getting any customers. Then, much to his surprise, a slinky blonde in a bright red dress walks in the door, seeking his help to find her long-lost husband.

“You seem so kind,” she purrs in a fetching Russian accent, then plunks down $4,000 in cash.

So begins “Andy Barker, P.I.”, a new NBC sitcom with Andy Richter at his nerdiest as a CPA with a PI sideline.

Which he’s happy about it, even though wife Jen (played by Clea Lewis) voices her concern.

“No column of numbers has ever tried to cave in your skull,” she frets.

She needn’t worry. This is a comedy, after all. Besides, Andy is the sort of versatile guy who can keep an appointment with an accounting client while bringing him along on a hair-raising car chase to crack a missing-person mystery.

It all adds up for Andy, who knows that multi-tasking pays off. The show premieres 10.30 p.m. Bermuda time on Thursday.

Other shows this week to look out for (all times Bermuda):

[box] The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important archaeological finds of modern times, still stirring debate and discussion among scholars. Meanwhile, the story of Cain and Abel is recognised by major religions of the world as the first murder and, thus, the first death. Sunday, the National Geographic Channel premieres back-to-back specials that delve into biblical mysteries that still resonate today. Airing at 10 p.m., “Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls” examines the modern-day impact of those ancient treasures, which, comprising more than 900 manuscripts, were discovered just 60 years ago but are the oldest known collection of biblical texts.

[box] Then, at 11 p.m. “Cain and Abel” explores the biblical story told in just 16 lines: How Cain, a farmer, and brother Abel, a shepherd, both make offerings to God, but, after Cain’s offering is rejected, he kills Abel in a jealous rage and God banishes him from Eden. The story poses questions still debated today: Why would God prefer one brother over another? Why is Cain’s life spared after he committed such a sin? In this one-hour special, biblical scholars and archaeologists trace the roots of this dark mystery back to Middle Eastern traditions and history.

[box] A new A&E film, “Kings of South Beach” is based on the improbable but true tale of Chris Troiano, a young thug from Staten Island who rose to the peak of high society in Miami’s tony South Beach — only to lose it all when his bloody past caught up with him. Dubbed the “It Boy” by People magazine, Troiano (played by Jason Gedrick) opens South Beach’s most famous 1990s-era nightclubs. Then, with the help of his new and mysterious best friend Andy Burnett (Donnie Wahlberg), he creates one of the hottest nightspots ever to hit the Miami scene. And that’s when the trouble begins. The movie also stars Nadine Velazquez (“My Name Is Earl”) and Ricardo Antonio Chavira (“Desperate Housewives”). Written by Nick Pileggi (“Goodfellas”, “Casino”), it airs at 10 p.m. on Monday.

[box] Can five ex-cons get along in a residential rehab facility? Not if they’re on Comedy Central, which premieres “Halfway Home”, an improv sitcom about that very thing. The setting is Crenshaw House, where the Los Angeles Bureau of Prisons assigns some of its most notorious, nutty parolees.

The cast includes Oscar Nunez (“The Office”) as an over-sexed male prostitute; Jordan Black as a wannabe terrorist who is really just a rich kid with a bad attitude; Regan Burns as the house narc with an obsession with fire; Jessica Makinson as a drug trafficker who just can’t quit; and Octavia Spencer as an armed-robbery convict. Kevin Ruf plays the house supervisor who fights a losing battle to keep these social misfits in line. It premieres at 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday.

[box] You could call it world music, or folk, or “eclectic Celtic”. Loreena McKennitt won’t quibble. And now the popular Canadian singer, composer, pianist and harpist has expanded her global perspective with Arabic influences.

Her new explorations are on display in her first concert special, “Loreena McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra”, recorded in the 13th-century Moorish palace in Granada, Spain. Weaving exotic instruments such as the oud, Turkish clarinet and tabla drums into her trademark fiddles, uilleann pipes and Renaissance-style viols, McKennitt explains her mission at the top of the telecast: “a kind of musical travel writing,” she declares. Following on the heels of “An Ancient Muse”, her first full-length studio album in nine years, the special airs as a “Great Performances” presentation at 11 p.m. on Thursday on PBS.