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."

Fake Jam with Fake Bands

The follow-up to the axe-fantasy sensation Guitar Hero II is now in stores, and includes two bonus tracks that might be of interest to Comedyblog readers. The first is Strong Bad's "Trogdor," which can be seen in action here, here, and here.

The second is Metalocalypse stars Dethklok's "Thunderhorse," which can be seen here.

No word on whether Guitar Hero III will feature appearances by Spinal Tap, the Blues Brothers, the Rutles, Tenacious D, Wyld Stalyns, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Bad News, the Beets, the Folksmen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Fabulous Stains, Scäb, the Blowholes, 2gether, the Be Sharps, Gemini's Twin, Fingerbang, the Lone Rangers, the Original Way Outs, the Pinheads, Big Mountain Fudgecake, Creation, Foregone Conclusion, CB4, Dudez-a-Plenti, Shasta McNasty, the Horndogs, the Suburbans, Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld, Scrambled Debutante, the School of Rock or other fake bands.

Metalocalypse is now airing new episodes on Adult Swim, and creator Brendon Small has announced the band's plans to release an album next year.