Slow News Day: Professor Jables, Weeklong Swim, No-Name Nowhere Director

ITEM: Jack Black and the Acceptable TV crew have added more hilarious amateur filmmaking tutorials to their website, concluding with a depressing guide to rejection, complete with Heat Vision and Jack reference. By the way, if you haven't been watching Acceptable TV, you should really get started.

ITEM: Adult Swim is expanding to a full week of 11-6 programming, which will make room for more new shows like the previously reported Fat Guy Stuck in Internet (formerly known as Gemberling), a full season of Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, and the long-developing Superjail. Meanwhile, the second seasons of The Boondocks and Metalocalypse are coming this summer, and new episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, and (if finished in time) Venture Bros. this fall.

ITEM: Karey Kirkpatrick has signed on to direct Eddie Murphy in the promising-without-Eddie-Murphy Ed Solomon/Chris Matheson script NowhereLand. Kirkpatrick is probably best known for butchering the script to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but he also penned the super-affable Chicken Run, and his offbeat cereal-themed directorial debut Flakes is getting pretty good notices in its current festival run, so let's say his involvement pushes NowhereLand further towards the "yes" end of "maybe."

Jack Black Wants You to Watch Him, Control Him, and Create For Him

A couple months ago, we announced that Jack Black, Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, and VH1 were teaming up to create a multimedia program called Acceptable TV, based on Schrab and Harmon's popular Channel 101 website. We now have a date for the premiere: March 23. We could either explain how the whole thing works again, or we could let Jables himself tell you in these amusing promo spots.

Schrab and Harmon, who recently wrote the Oscar-nominated Monster House and are now pulling various strings behind The Sarah Silverman Program, previously worked with Black on the popular unaired pilot Heat Vision and Jack (check your favorite illegal video site), and will work with him again in the CGI Kung Fu Panda. Black also has Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind and Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding in post-production.