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Upadted: After months of M&a talks, Paramount Global and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone might be going it alone after all — for now.

Insiders tell Variety that the expectation at the company is that neither of the two offers in play — Skydance Media-RedBird Capital Partners and Sony Pictures Entertainment-Apollo Global Management — will come to fruition. And Redstone is said to have concluded that the deal currently on the table from David Ellison’s Skydance, a longtime partner of Paramount Pictures, will not be possible.

As of Friday morning, the special committee established by Paramount Global’s board to evaluate M&a proposals had not notified Skydance one way or the other about its best and final offer, which would involve Skydance acquiring Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. and merging Skydance and Paramount Global, per a source familiar with the talks. The exclusive 30-day negotiating window between Skydance and...

Warning: The following video will make you grin uncontrollably.

Late Night’s occasional “classroom instruments” videos — in which Jimmy Fallon, the Roots, and special guests perform popular songs accompanied only by woodblocks, toy xylophones, and the like — are generally pretty great. For pure joy value, though, none of the previous clips can compare to this one — which features Fallon and his band performing Sesame Street’s theme song with Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, and the rest of that show’s principal cast of muppets.

They’re counted in by The Count. Partway through, Cookie Monster devours his instrument. The Roots...

It's hard to argue, at this point, that Jay and Mark Duplass have not come into their own. The two brothers now have several feature films under their belts, and have only grown into more refined and mature artists as they've aged. In the endlessly enjoyable The Do-Deca Pentathlon, the two brothers are operating inside of the kind of story they do best: insane people doing insane things to one another.  Mark (Steve Zissis), a high-strung family man, takes his wife and son up to his mother's house for a relaxing birthday weekend. Plans for a stress-free vacation are spoiled, however, when Mark's semi-estranged brother Jeremy (Mark Kelley), an unattached professional poker player, shows up sans invitation. In his childhood bedroom, Jeremy discovers a...