Shonda Rhimes

Another gripe, while we’re on the subject: All too often, CPA characters are just so… boring. TvTropes.com, which has them pegged as “Acceptable Professional Targets,” notes that accountants are typically depicted as  “dull [and] … unable to relax or think outside the box.” But an upcoming project just might flip the script and upend some of those stereotypes: “The Catch,” a stylish new Shonda Rhimes drama that ABC has added to its 2015–2016 lineup.

Though details are scant, here’s what we know: The show stars Mireille Enos (“If I Stay,”  “World War Z”) as our heroine, Alice Vaughan, a forensic accountant on the verge of being conned by her own fiancé. The trailer seems promising—and sexy—although, according to Entertainment Weekly, there’s already some behind-the-scenes drama: Jennifer Schuur, the co-showrunner of “The Catch,” left in August over “creative differences.” So, can “The Catch” do for the profession what  “Grey’s Anatomy” did for surgeons or “Scandal” did for politicos?  We’ll see. We’ll be blogging about the series once it starts.

Also on our radar: “The Accountant,” an action thriller starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick, is set to hit theaters in October 2016. Affleck plays Chris, “a socially-weird government accountant who moonlights as a highly trained assassin,” according to CINEMABLEND.  We’re not sure what to make of all that, but, well, Ben Affleck.