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."

Olivia Goes Nowhere

According to Variety, Eddie Murphy has signed on as the lead in NowhereLand, a new comedy from Paramount Pictures about a man who solves a career crisis by visiting an imaginary world thought up by his daydreaming daughter. Before you shrug it off as another goofy diet-gross-out family comedy in the vein of Doctor Dolittle and Daddy Day Care, keep in mind that the producers specifically chose Murphy based on his late-breakthrough performance in Dreamgirls, and more importantly, keep in mind that it's from the offbeat writing duo of Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, best known as the creators and writers of the Bill and Ted series.

Variety doesn't mention it, but we're pretty damn sure this is the same project as the previously announced Me and Olivia, which was inspired by Solomon's own kid. Solomon was also attached to direct at that point (he previously directed Billy Bob Thornton in 2003's Levity), but there's no mention of a director in this new development. Matheson has also taken a stab at the chair before, with the underseen sci-fi comedy Evil Alien Conquerors, starring Diedrich Bader and Chris Parnell.

It's great news to see the pair working together again, but it's a poor substitute for any new information on Automatons, their dream project which was in the early stages of development a few years ago but died out without studio support. That little treasure involves two robots who were long ago programmed to kill Adolf Hitler, but got chucked into the ocean after he killed himself, where they continue to this day searching for their target on the sea floor, until Hitler is cloned and put back in action, causing the U.S. government to seek out the droids and let them finish their job. Supposedly, voice over was already recorded, with John C. Reilly and Jack Black as the titular characters, and John Cleese as the Great Dictator. Yes please?