Starting tonight, VH1 is searching for the next queen of horror film. In Scream Queens, 10 unknown actresses will put their shrieking, crying, and butt-kicking skills to the test for the chance to win a feature role in the upcoming Saw VI. (Yes, there's going to be a Saw VI.)

The trailer for the show looks kind of hilariously awesome, in that White Rapper Show-esque, self-aware kind of way. But it's also gotten me thinking about women in horror generally and whether this show is a good or a bad thing.

On the one hand, well, the title says a lot: The show's looking for someone who can scream all damsel-in-distress-style, presumably while being attacked by some menacing thing. So often in horror movies, female sexuality and violence go hand-in-hand. You certainly would never see a competition looking for male screamers, right? But on the other hand, the trailer seems to be playing up the ass-kicking aspect of being a horror star, and show judge (and original Saw gal) Shawnee Smith has said there's a lot more to being a "scream queen" than just playing the victim.

In this Halloween month, it's as good a time as any to get talking about women in horror — so I invite you to post your thoughts on that below. You can check out the Scream Queens trailer if you read more

Mark Wahlberg had a good weekend. His movie Max Payne was No. 1 at the box office, with an estimated $18 million. Plus, it looks like he made nice with Andy Samberg, after things got tense last week.

Second place turned out to be what Variety calls a "photo finish" between those dancing dogs and The Secret Life of Bees. Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua just barely eked out a second place finish its third weekend in theaters with an estimated $11.2 million with Bees close behind with about $11.1 million.

Oliver Stone's biopic W also did well, coming in at No. 4 with an estimated $10.6 million its first weekend out followed by Eagle Eye at No. 5.

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If stunt casting is a way to get more people to watch a show, then let's hope it works tonight for NBC's hilarious Chuck. Nicole Richie makes her long-awaited guest appearance as a high school acquaintance of Sarah's, and all signs point to it being awesome. Here's a short list of reasons why it should be great:

1. Richie's character is named Heather Chandler — ha!
2. Heather turns up suddenly in Burbank and reveals a ton of information that could blow Sarah's cover, including her name and hometown.
3. Through her, we get flashbacks to an awkward, mousy, braces-wearing version of Sarah.
4. Heather was a total mean girl in high school, but she ended up marrying a nerdy classmate, played by Ben Savage.
5. There's going to be a fight scene between Nicole and Sarah in the gym showers at their high school reunion.

Excited? Chuck's only gotten better since the new season began, and this episode looks to be no exception. To watch an extended preview with several of Richie's scenes, just read more

• Fox is new with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break
• NBC is new with Chuck, Heroes, and My Own Worst Enemy
• CBS is new with The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Worst Week, and CSI: Miami
• ABC is new with Dancing With the Stars, Samantha Who? and Boston Legal
• The CW is new with Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill
• MTV is new with The Hills and The Hills Aftershow
• VH1 is new with Real Chance of Love and Scream Queens
• TNT is new with Raising the Bar
• Comedy Central is new with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report
• Late-night highlights include Jessica Simpson and Jack Hanna on a repeat of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS; Ellen DeGeneres on a repeat of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC; Rachael Ray and Dee Dee Myers on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS; and Denis Leary, Anthony Bourdain, and Mates of State on a repeat of Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC

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Kenneth on 30 Rock might lack common sense, but he must be quite extraordinary if he's nabbed a page job at NBC. The New York Times recently profiled the page program for a story that includes interviews with current pages, famous pages (Regis Philbin, Ted Koppel), and Jack McBrayer, whose 30 Rock character is probably the best-known fictional page of all time.

Among the things I learned from the story:

• The page program is 10 times as competitive as admission to Harvard.
• Pages get a 75-page handbook full of NBC trivia, most of which they're supposed to memorize, and they have to pass a test at the end of orientation.
• About 70 percent of pages end up with jobs at NBC by the end of the program.
• Ted Koppel claims that when he was a page, he dated his way through the Rockettes.
• The real NBC pages recently got snazzy gray uniforms, which means Kenneth's look might be getting an update as well.

It's a fun story and definitely worth the read. Have you ever dreamed of being an NBC page?

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