Article: TELEVISION; Going home again can be a bumpy ride

You know that novel you're planning to write, the one that trashes everyone in your hometown?

Go ahead, write it. But don't go back home and expect a parade.

That's the moral of "October Road," a not-bad, not-great drama getting a tryout for a few weeks in the slot normally occupied by "Men in Trees."

Bryan Greenberg ("One Tree Hill") stars as Nick Garrett, who left home after high school graduation and, instead of coming back in the fall as planned, stayed away for a decade.

Now Nick, the author of a bestselling autobiographical novel, decides to return to tiny Knights Ridge, Mass., the last place he was really happy. But apart from his laid-back dad (Tom Berenger, "Third Watch") and ...

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