In TV’s first post-9/11 drama about the FDNY, Denis Leary turns his acerbic wit on firefighters. But can viewers handle an unflinching view of their heroes?

A generation of Scarsdale sons and daughters, motivated by quality-of-life issues and perhaps by a Nick at Nite-ish nostalgia for the leafy utopia of their youth, have gone home again. What it means to accept, even embrace, the suburbanite within.

As hip to hip-hop and electronica as he is to Tori Amos, Craig Kallman is driving Atlantic Records all over the pop-music map in search of hits.