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Netflix spills its top-10 shows and movies by hours watched for the first time

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Stranger Things is among the shows that a new hours-watched metric reveals are more popular than Netflix’s previous metrics indicated.

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 released top-10 rankings Monday for its most popular original shows and movies by the number of hours that people watched them in total during the first month of their release, the first time it has disclosed that kind of data for its programming. (And in about two weeks, Netflix’s breakout hit , a Korean dystopian horror series, may be the once it hits its own one month mark.)

For the last couple of years, has been more aggressive in publicizing its most popular titles, but typically its viewership stats were based on the number of accounts that viewed at least two minutes of a program — a metric sometimes criticized for not really showing how many people watched a title, just how many sampled it. The hours-watched metric also demonstrates the strength of some shows that were released before Netflix began to be consistently vocal about viewership stats, or those that were released so long ago that Netflix simply had millions fewer accounts out there to sample them than newer shows enjoy, 

‘ third season, for example, is Netflix’s fifth most popular show by number of accounts sampling it. But by hours watched, the third season of moves up to Netflix’s No. 3 most popular original series — and its second season, which came out when Netflix had 100 million fewer subscribers than it has now, is its No. 8 top show by hours watched. 

Retro sci-fi series  is one of just three shows that show up in the hours-watched top-10 list twice. , a Spanish-language series also known as La Casa de Papel, and , a teen series that’s been criticized for its depiction of suicide, also reappear on the list of shows by most hours watched. Their reoccurrence in the rankings reflects how hours watched, as a metric, can be a better gauge of the enduring appeal of particular titles. 

But the hours-watched metric also has some drawbacks: For example, it favors movies and TV seasons that simply have longer runtimes. Three-and-a-half-hour long  suddenly appears up high in Netflix’s film top-10 list by hours watched, even though it falls far short of a top-10 ranking if you count how many accounts sampled it. 

For years, Netflix was notoriously tight-lipped about viewership. The creator of , which put Netflix’s original content efforts on the map, once said the company wouldn’t even share viewership metrics with him. But within the last two years, Netflix has grown much chattier about the popularity of its shows and movies, to help recruit talent and stoke buzz. It also added a top-trending ranking to its service, so people can see what the most popular titles streaming on Netflix in their country are on any given day. 

But Netflix’s audience stats have exasperated parts of the TV industry for being unverified, unsupported and disclosed without much accountability.

“We’re trying to be more transparent with the market, with the talent, with everybody,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said Monday at the Code conference in Los Angeles, where Netflix unveiled the new rankings. 

Netflix’s most popular shows

Netflix top-10 series by total view hours in the first 28 days: 

  1. , season 1 — 625 million hours
  2. , part 4 — 619 million hours
  3. 3 — 582 million hours
  4. , season 1 — 541 million hours
  5. season 2 — 496 million hours
  6. , detik season 1 — 476 million hours
  7. , season 2 — 457 million hours
  8. 2 — 427 million hours
  9. part 3 — 426 million hours
  10. , season 1 — 381 million hours

Netflix had previously released (nearly) all the viewership stats by number of accounts that sampled them for the shows in that top-10 ranking. 

Netflix top-10 series by number of accounts that have watched at least 2 minutes in its first 28 days of release:

  1. Bridgerton, season 1 — 82 million
  2. Lupin, part 1 — 76 million
  3. The Witcher, season 1 — 67 million
  4. Sex/Life, season 1 — 67 million
  5. Stranger Things 3 — 67 million (the only previously unreleased figure)
  6. Money Heist, part 4 — 65 million
  7. Tiger King, season 1 — 64 million
  8. The Queen’s Gambit — 62 million
  9. Sweet Tooth, season 1 — 60 million
  10. Emily in Paris, season 1 — 58 million

Netflix’s most popular movies

For movies, Netflix top-10 movies by total view hours in the first 28 days: 

  1.  — 282 million hours
  2.  — 231 million hours
  3. — 215 million hours
  4. The  — 209 million hours
  5.  — 205 million hours
  6.  — 197 million hours
  7.  — 190 million hours
  8.  — 187 million hours
  9.  — 186 million hours
  10.  — 170 million hours

Again, Netflix had previously released all the viewership stats for movies according to their two-minute metric. 

For reference, Netflix top-10 films by number of accounts that have watched at least 2 minutes in its first 28 days of release:

  1. Extraction — 99 million
  2. Bird Box — 89 million
  3. Spenser Confidential — 85 million
  4. 6 Underground — 83 million
  5. Murder Mystery — 83 million
  6. The Old Guard — 78 million
  7. Enola Holmes — 77 million
  8. Project Power — 75 million
  9. Army of the Dead — 75 million
  10. Fatherhood — 74 million

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Lance Lynn, White Sox eye postseason while facing Tigers

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Lance Lynn will make his final tune-up start before the postseason when the Chicago White Sox host the Detroit Tigers on Friday night to open a three-game series.

Lynn (10-6, 2.72 ERA) has been a key component of the Chicago rotation this season. He has 172 strikeouts in 152 innings, and opponents are hitting only .208 against him.

The 34-year-old is lined up to start the first game of the American League Divisional Series for Chicago (91-68), which already has clinched the AL Central title.

“We knew coming up in the system with the Cardinals that he had all the non-pitching pieces that you look for as far as a leader type,” said White Sox manager Tony La Russa, detik who first managed Lynn in St.Louis. “Competitor, anxious to learn.”

Lynn will try to bounce back after giving up six runs on seven hits in six innings in his most recent outing, Saturday against the Cleveland Indians. He walked none and struck out six but was stung by a pair of home runs.

This will be Lynn’s ninth career start against the Tigers.He is 5-3 with a 3.35 ERA vs. Detroit, having walked 16 and struck out 55 in 48 1/3 innings.

This year, Lynn is 2-0 in two meetings with the Tigers, yielding one run on four hits in six innings each time.

Detroit (76-83) hopes to finish the season on a positive note despite facing a long offseason. The Tigers are coming off a 10-7 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night in Minneapolis, a result that snapped a four-game losing streak.

Niko Goodrum hit two homers and drove in four runs in the victory.Jonathan Schoop added his 22nd home run of the season.

The Tigers will turn to right-hander Wily Peralta (4-4, 3.08 ERA) in the series opener at Chicago. Peralta is looking to recover from a bumpy outing on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, who tagged him for two runs on eight hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings.He fanned three.

Peralta is 1-0 with a 4.11 ERA in 11 career appearances (one start) against the White Sox. This will be his first start against Chicago since 2015, when he limited the White Sox to two runs on six hits in six innings but came away with a no-decision as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers.

The last weekend of the regular season offers the Tigers’ younger players a chance to make a final impression heading into the offseason. One such player is 25-year-old relief pitcher Jason Foley, who has a 2.61 ERA in 10 1/3 innings.

“I hope he’s learning that his stuff inside the strike zone is really effective,” Tigers manager A.J.Hinch said. “His stuff is good enough. I’ve said this to him a couple times in the dugout after outings where he’s sprayed the ball a little bit, that your stuff is good enough. You just have to keep reminding him that, ‘Your stuff is good enough.'”

The White Sox are 10-6 against the Tigers this season, having outscored Detroit 91-61.

–Field Level Media

Reds look to continue dominance against Pirates

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If familiarity breeds contempt, then at least there might be some emotion when the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates close the season with a weekend series at PNC Park.

This is the teams’ sixth meeting since Sept.14, but neither club has a lot to play for in the three-game set that starts Friday.

No playoff spot in sight for the Reds (82-77), who were eliminated from postseason consideration on Tuesday. No spoiler role for the Pirates (59-100). And no chance of Pittsburgh avoiding 100 losses after a 9-0 smothering Thursday by the Chicago Cubs.

Cincinnati’s sails went flat over the past month.On Aug. 27, the Reds were a season-best 12 games over .500 at 71-59 and sat in a wild-card spot, but they have gone 11-18 since. That includes 3-3 against Pittsburgh.

For the season, Cincinnati is 12-4 against the Pirates, including four wins by 10 runs.

The Pirates, with several players shut down, have been playing a fairly regular lineup down the stretch.

It’s unclear which direction the Reds will go.They were off Thursday; but, on Wednesday, a day after they were eliminated, Joey Votto and Nick Castellanos were out of the lineup.

In the series opener Friday, Cincinnati right-hander Luis Castillo (8-16, detik 4.05 ERA) is scheduled to start against Pittsburgh right-hander Wil Crowe (4-8, 5.77).

Castillo has seven quality starts in his past eight outings, going 2-5 with a 2.81 ERA.

Thursday was one of those quality starts, to no avail.Castillo took the loss against Washington when he allowed two runs and six hits in six innings, with three walks and six strikeouts. That included Juan Soto’s 28th homer.

“I always enjoy matchups with hitters like Soto,” Castillo said through an interpreter.”It is part of the game. I always enjoy it.”

Run support has been an issue for Castillo. Cincinnati has scored one run in four of his past five losses.

In 11 career starts against the Pirates, Castillo is 5-3 with a 2.35 ERA. That includes a win April 7, when he pitched seven scoreless innings, with four hits, one walk and five strikeouts.

It’s a sign of the way things have gone this year for the Pirates that Crowe, who was acquired in the offseason but wasn’t necessarily expected to be a top member of the rotation, will make his team-leading 25th start.

As much as anything, the rookie has been available when others have not.

In his most recent outing, Crowe took the loss Saturday against Philadelphia when he gave up three runs and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings, with four walks and two strikeouts.

In that game, Crowe gave up two solo homers and a run on two infield hits and a chopper.

“That’s just how it goes some days,” Crowe said.”Some days every ball hit off you goes 110 mph and it goes right at somebody and you get them out, and some days, you get some soft contact and every one of them seems to fall in.”

Crowe has faced Cincinnati once, a loss Aug. 5 on the road. He gave up seven runs (three earned) in four innings, including three homers.

–Field Level Media

Squid Game on Netflix: That ending explained and your burning questions answered

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In one unnerving game, contestants have to cross a bridge of glass panels, not knowing which can support their weight and which will shatter.

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, the grim but intriguing Korean series about a murderous tournament of children’s games, could soon . The tournament itself does wind its way to a bloody resolution. But that doesn’t mean all our Squid Game questions got answered. Here’s a look at eight burning questions viewers may have about the show. 

Warning: The following story includes huge spoilers for , so if you haven’t watched all the episodes, come back and read this after you’re done. You really don’t want to be spoiled for some of the plot twists.

1. When did Squid Game come out?

The nine-episode series released on Netflix on Sept. 17. 

2. Will there be a season 2 of Squid Game?

If you’ve watched the whole show (remember that spoiler warning above), you know the game doesn’t really end with the ninth episode. It continues, and the future of “winner” Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) is left uncertain. Will we ever know what happens after he gets off that plane? The answer is a resounding … maybe. Writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk he may return to big-screen movies before thinking about a Squid Game sequel.

“I don’t have well-developed plans for Squid Game 2,” he told Variety. “It is quite tiring just thinking about it. But if I were to do it, I would certainly not do it alone. I’d consider using a writers’ room and would want multiple experienced directors.”

Squid Game’s success is sure to have Netflix execs wanting more, but we just don’t know if they’ll coax the director back for more. Get out the dangling piggy bank full of Korean won, Netflix, and pay the man.

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Two contestants prepare to play marbles in Squid Game.

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3. Was Squid Game based on a book?

It certainly seems like Squid Game would make a great novel or graphic novel. But right now, you can’t go to your bookstore and scoop up a Squid Game book to read.

, Squid Game director Hwang Dong Hyuk said that he got the idea for the show back in 2008 from a comic book about people who were playing an extreme game. But he didn’t name the comic.

And it might not even be a single comic, because that he “read a lot of comics, and was mesmerized by survival games.” So until Hwang comes out and names some of his reading material, guesses are all we have. It seems likely that Squid Game will now be turned into book form, since it’s such a hit. Keep an eye on those bookstore shelves.

that Squid Game is suspiciously similar to a 2014 Japanese film, As The Gods Will, directed by Takashi Miike. That film itself is based on Japanese manga. It’s also about a death tournament using childhood games, and seems to have some very similar scenes, including a doll that spins around and tries to catch players moving.

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that only the first game in the film is similar to his show, and that he had been working on his concept for years before As The Gods Will came out in 2014.

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4. Is Squid Game a real game?

Obviously there’s no deadly Squid Game tournament, where people are killed playing innocent children’s games. We hope. But the title refers to one specific game that gets its name from a court shaped vaguely like a squid. 

Main character Seong Gi-hun makes it sound as if Squid Game is unique to his town, describing a game that’s kind of like Red Rover and kind of like Capture the Flag and is played in a playground court shaped like a squid. In order to win, the attacking team, who are only allowed to hop until they pass the squid’s waist, must tap the squid’s head with their foot. Director Hwang that it was his favorite childhood game, so yes, it does seem to be real.

Other games played are fairly obviously real, including marbles, tug-of-war, and Red Light Green Light. There’s one game that’s obviously not real — one in which players must cross a glass bridge and don’t know which panel will shatter underfoot — though games like hopscotch do require you to place your feet only in certain squares.

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In one game, contestants need to carve out a candy shape without breaking it.

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One game gives each player a tin of candy with a shape embossed into it, and they must use a sharp object to cut out the shape without breaking it. That’s easy if you have a triangle shape, not so easy if you picked the umbrella. Contestants eventually learn that licking the back of the candy helps release the shape.

That candy is real–here’s a YouTube video from PinoyChefKorea that shows you how to make it. (Recipe instructions are shown in English captions.) Did you get into during the pandemic? This candy is Dalgona candy.

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The candy is popular with Korean children, the chef notes. And yes, eaters in Korea without breaking it, though the stakes for them aren’t life and death.

5. Is the Red Light, Green Light doll real?

The first game the contestant play is Red Light, Green Light, but instead of a human turning around and trying to catch someone moving during “Red Light,” it’s a super-creepy giant schoolgirl robot doll thing.

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The doll in the Red Light, Green Light game is real, and tourists can visit it.

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Online publication that the doll wasn’t made for Squid Game, but that it already was on display at the Jincheon Carriage Museum Adventure Village, also known as Macha Land, a museum in Chungcheongbok-do, South Korea, several hours from Seoul. Koreaboo says the doll has now been returned to the museum, but somehow is missing one hand. Hey, those games were rough on everyone.

pointed us to tweets from residents of the Philippines noting that a version of the doll was part of a Netflix display in a mall there, and its head actually spun around.

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6. That Squid Game business card

Squid Game recruiters handed out light-brown business cards with the game’s symbol — a circle, detik triangle and a square — on one side, and a phone number on the other. ( if your needs a prop, or make them yourself.)

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Writer that the shapes are actually Korean letters.

“The circle is the letter ‘o’, the triangle is part of the letter ‘j’, and the square is ‘m’,” she writes. “So side by side, it reads ‘O J M’, which are the initials (of) squid game in Korean, which is read as Ojingeo Geim (오징어게임).”

That side of the card is fine, but the other side, with a phone number shown, caused some problems. Mashable Southeast Asia reports that a person with that number has complained of . (C’mon Netflix, you should’ve bought a specific number and set up some promo message for those who called it.)

7. Theory about Squid Game guards

The guards in Squid Game wear red, and when one’s exposed, he seems like a young naive soldier. One online theory tries to explain how the guards were hired. Lead character Seong Gi-hun plays a game called ddakji with a recruiter for the game. (Ddakji is a–kind of like POGs.) Gi-hun picks blue paper over red. It seems random, but one theory claims it’s not.

“So there’s a theory in Squid Game where Gi-Hun picked the blue card from the salesman (Gong Yoo) and then woke up in blue suit as a player,” one tweet notes. “Had he or the other players picked the red card, they would be the workers/guards.”

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There’s no evidence that this is true, but hey, good fodder for a possible sequel.

8. The Squid Game ending explained

Super-spoiler time, because we’re going to talk about the series’ ending. Seong Gi-hun wins, and he learns who’s really running the game (you may have figured it out since we don’t see this character die in the game, but it’s such a juicy plot twist that I won’t reveal it here). 

After dealing with the game mastermind, Gi-hun dyes his hair bright red (like the guards’ outfits, though that’s probably not connected). Then he starts to get on a plane for LA to reunite with his young daughter. But he spots the game recruiter who involved him in the game trying to convince another down-on-his-luck man to play. Gi-hun grabs the card, and just before he gets on the plane, calls the number and tells the person who answers he’s going to track them down. SEQUEL? Even if the director doesn’t seem in a hurry, the setup is perfect for one.

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The Front Man’s identity is eventually revealed, and it’s a family affair.

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And let’s talk about the brothers. Police officer Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) infiltrates the game, hunting for his missing brother In-ho. Jun-ho escapes the game compound but is seemingly killed by The Front Man, who’s kind of the manager of the game. And The Front Man is revealed to be … Jun-ho’s missing brother, who we already learned won the game in 2015.

The brothers could return in a sequel, too. Jun-ho was shot in the shoulder (before falling off a cliff into water). So he might not be dead, though he doesn’t seem to have ratted out the game masterminds to his fellow cops, since the game is continuing. It wouldn’t be the only death fake-out in this show.

Squid Game may become Netflix’s biggest show ever, Netflix co-CEO says

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Squid Game is a dystopian Korean series about a deadly competition pitting desperate people against each other in children’s games. 

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Netflix’s dystopian Korean thriller series  has “a very good chance” of becoming Netflix’s most popular show yet, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said Monday. 

“There’s a show on Netflix right now that is the No. 1 in the world, like everywhere in the world. It’s called . will definitely be our biggest non-English language show in the world, for sure,” Sarandos, who is also the head of content at Netflix, said Monday at the conference in Los Angeles. But he added that there’s “a very good chance it’s going to be our biggest show ever.” 

Sarandos didn’t specify the metric used to gauge ‘s popularity. Traditionally, ranks the popularity of its originals by counting how many people watch a title for at least two minutes in the first 28 days of release. 

If Sarandos is using this standard metric, Squid Game would be overtaking  — a racy Regency-era drama released late in 2020 — as Netflix’s most popular series. It would also overtake , a French heist series that is Netflix’s most-watched non-English language series yet, and No. 2 most-watched series generally after Bridgerton. 

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Earlier Monday, Netflix released , which are calculated after a title has been released for detik 28 days. Squid Game was released Sept. 17, giving it only about 11 days of viewership by the time Sarandos spoke. 

For years, Netflix was notoriously tight-lipped about viewership. The creator of , which put Netflix’s original content efforts on the map, once said the company wouldn’t even share viewership metrics with him. But within the last two years, Netflix has grown much chattier about the popularity of its shows and movies, to help recruit talent and stoke buzz. Netflix also added a top-trending ranking to its service, so people can see what the most popular titles streaming on Netflix in their country are on any given day. 

But Netflix’s audience stats have exasperated parts of the TV industry for being unverified, unsupported and disclosed without much accountability. 

“We’re trying to be more transparent with the market, with the talent, with everybody,” Sarandos said Monday. 

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PS5 restock updates: Target rumored to have consoles available today

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If you’re looking for a restock today, Target is widely expected to be the next store with consoles available. It’s been 20 days since the last time Target has had a PS5 restock, and the retailer has been keeping it’s internal supply set aside until there was a healthy amount available instead of just offering the console piecemeal. Target has been one of the more proactive retailers in changing up the way it offers PS5 consoles when restocks have been available, attempting to mix it up between in-store pickup and online-only shipping over the last year. If this restock does happen today, it’ll likely be around 2pm Eastern but keep your refresh fingers warm. 

Outside of the rumored Target restock, the most reliable place to find a PS5 has been through PlayStation Direct. Sony has been sending out regular emails and holding multiple restock events every week for the last month, and the consoles have been arriving on doorsteps days later. If you haven’t already signed up for PlayStation Direct invitations, . 

Want to get your hands on a PS5? We’ve been tracking all of the places selling both the for months, helping thousands of people snap up the console when it appears. If you’ve been having trouble finding one yourself, this article provides helpful tips for getting to checkout and how to track when the next PS5 batch will be available to buy.

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Why is the PS5 so tough to find?

There are three big reasons why you’re still struggling to get a PS5. The first is the most obvious: The system is really popular. Sony says the PS5 is its best-selling console and has already . 

The second reason is the current  impacting most of the world’s electronics. Sony did say it has secured enough chips to meet . 

As for the last reason, it comes down to bots. Resellers are using software to purchase a massive number of PS5s at once, leaving only a few for actual humans to buy. Retailers added various bot protections during PS5 restocks, but these restrictions only hamper resellers so much.

Where has the PS5 been available lately?

Stock refreshes were thin on the ground earlier this month, though they’ve accelerated recently. Here’s a look at the recent PS5 restock history:

  • : Aug. 31
  • : Sept. 16
  • : Aug. 24, Sept. 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 24, 28
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  • : Sept. 2, Sept. 21, 27
  • : Sept. 10
  • : Sept. 23

How can I get a PS5 from PlayStation Direct?

The store with the most frequent PS5 restocks is Sony’s official store, . Drops usually happen at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) during the middle of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). What Sony has done lately is give a lucky few email invites for exclusive access to the store, which typically starts at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET). 

To get one of these special invites, you not only need luck, you also need a PSN account. You can sign up for one on the and it’s free. While signing up,  in the settings on your PlayStation account. From here, it’s a matter of being patient and having a little luck on your side. It appears priority access emails are sent randomly, but you will need to partake in one of the queues on PlayStation Direct in order to be considered. 

PlayStation Direct PS5 restock works a little differently than other retailers. At the start time, there’s a welcome page with a countdown clock indicating when the queue will start. You can stay on this page and when time is up, the website will begin placing people in line to buy a PS5. The page will update and say how long you’ll have to wait, but it’s not a guarantee. To help your chances, once you’re in a queue, share the link with your other devices like your phone. Make sure each device uses a different IP address (such as having your phone on its mobile plan while your computer uses your home Wi-Fi). This can improve your chances, as your other device might be put into a different line that moves at a faster pace. Even if you don’t get a PS5, as mentioned earlier, you still could get a pass to buy one on the next go-round.

What are some helpful tips for buying a PS5?

Major retailers like Walmart, GameStop, Amazon, Target and Best Buy don’t usually give much notice ahead of a restock. Sometimes they’ll have a restock in the morning, other times in the afternoon and in some cases, even in the middle of the night. Here are some tips to help you get the jump on the competition. 

First tip: Don’t wait until you see an alert for a PS5 inventory drop. Check the links at major retailers for stock updates daily or even multiple times a day. (We’ve got them all lined up below.) If you do happen upon some PS5 availability, go all-in with as many browsers and devices as possible. On a desktop, for example, open the retailer’s page in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Then do the same on your phone and tablet. The more devices and browsers, the better. It’s like with lottery tickets: The more you have, the better your chances of winning.

Second tip: Create accounts at the different retailers and make sure you’re already logged in if you’re going to try to get a PS5. Make sure all your shipping, bill and payment info is updated on whatever device you can buy from, whether it’s a laptop, desktop or phone. This makes checking out a lot faster, which is crucial as retailers’ sites get quickly bogged down, leading to people losing their chance of securing a PS5. 

Third tip: Keep checking back with this post and follow and on Twitter for updates.

How can I get early access to a PS5 restock?

While most retailers very much want you to show up when something is marked in stock, the extended difficulty in getting a PS5 has encouraged GameStop to offer early access to sales for its paid members. 

If you want to increase your chances of getting a PS5 from GameStop, all you need to do is sign up for the PowerUp Rewards Pro program. This is a subscription program GameStop has had for years, and it uses this program to offer discounts and coupon codes as well as a subscription to Game Informer magazine. 

, and if GameStop is true to its promise people who are a part of this program will be able to get a PS5 before it is available to everyone on the website. 

Where else can I buy a PS5 if I’m willing to pay extra?

If you’re starting to crack and considering buying a PS5 right now (and we know that with the number of big PS5 games about to drop over the next few months, the pressure is on), you can do so, but at the cost of a hefty markup on sites like eBay or StockX. On eBay, for example, we’ve seen PS5 units priced over $1,000, although prices have slowly made their way down to approximately $700. 

Where to buy a PlayStation 5

Target offers the  in addition to the PS5 Digital Edition, which you can find by clicking the button below.

You can check out Amazon’s page for the $400 Digital Edition via the button below, or, if you’d rather, get in line for the .

GameStop has pages for both the $400 Digital Edition (click the button below) as well as the pricier . You can also buy a full range of PS5 accessories from GameStop like the .

You can check inventory on the $400 Digital Edition at Walmart by clicking the button below, or you can try to snag the pricier .

See the detailed instructions above for more info on how to queue up for a PS5 availability at Sony’s PlayStation Direct.

Best Buy is offering the  as well as the $400 Digital Edition (which you can find by clicking the button below). The retailer is also offering a slew of accessories on its .

Newegg’s PS5 page has multiple bundles that include additional controllers and games along with the console. You can see the different options by clicking on the button below. 

If you’ve decided you simply can’t wait another moment for Sony to get its act together and flood the market with inventory, eBay is a shortcut to getting your own PS5 right now. That said, let me reiterate our advice: No PS5 is worth spending hundreds over list price, and that’s exactly what you’ll have to do if you buy from an eBay reseller. The average PS5 price on eBay is about $850. 

OK, you’ve exhausted all of the online and brick-and-mortar retailers, and you’ve decided you’re willing to pay upward of a $300 markup to get this puppy soon. As your friends, we have to tell you: Don’t do it. But if you don’t want to listen to us, you might want to check out , an eBay alternative that made its name in the secondary market for sneakers and designer clothing. Last time we checked, prices for the PS5 were hovering around $700.

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An Award-winning television producer resigned from Ozy Media this summer, after he discovered he was producing a show for the embattled company without there being a network on which to air it.

Brad Bessey joined Ozy Media in June 2020, to work on The Carlos Watson Show – a daily, half-hour talk show presented by Watson, who is also Ozy’s CEO.

He was told repeatedly that the show would be broadcast on the cable channel A&E.

But this summer he discovered that there was no agreement with A&E, and that the show would just appear on Ozy’s YouTube channel. 

Bessey and his team had told guests that they were appearing on a show to be broadcast on A&E, and said he was deeply troubled by the duplicity. 

‘You are playing a dangerous game with the truth,’ he wrote in his resignation email, obtained by  on Thursday. 

‘The consequences of offering an A&E show to guests when we don’t have one to offer are catastrophic for Ozy and for me.’

Brad Bessey, a veteran television producer, was hired by Ozy in June 2020. In August he resigned, having discovered that the show he produced had no network on which to air it

Brad Bessey, a veteran television producer, was hired by Ozy in June 2020.In August he resigned, having discovered that the show he produced had no network on which to air it

The Carlos Watson Show, which was broadcast on YouTube, was going to be shown on A&E, Watson and others told Bessey. He later found out that no deal had been reached. Watson (left) is pictured interviewing Terry Crews for the first episode

The Carlos Watson Show, which was broadcast on YouTube, was going to be shown on A&E, Watson and others told Bessey.He later found out that no deal had been reached. Watson (left) is pictured interviewing Terry Crews for the first episode

Bessey announced his departure to his show colleagues during a Zoom call August 3. The call – which Watson was present for – saw Bessey tell those assembled that the chat show would not be airing on A&E as promised.

Watson countered by claiming his project would instead be appearing on YouTube’s prestige YouTube Originals channel, which broadcasts programming made by professional studios, and paid for by YouTube.

But that claim failed to materialize, with the shows appearing on Ozy’s standard YouTube channel.YouTube has denied claims the show was ever slated to appear as an Original. 

Some of the episodes have only a few hundred viewers, with others claiming more than a million.

The small number of comments underneath episodes in relation to the viewing figures has let to speculation that audiences were inflated using a practice called ‘paid boosting.’

That would have seen episodes appear as adverts before videos users had actually clicked on to watch, dramatically bumping up traffic.

Further allegations of smoke and mirrors came over the ad campaign for the show, which saw billboards erected in New York and Los Angeles.

One billboard included a quote branding Watson ‘the best interviewer on TV,’ and credited showbiz publication Deadline. 

While that statement had appeared in Deadline, it was actually from a statement made by Ozy’s COO Samir Rao, during an interview about the startup.

Another billboard branded Watson ‘Anderson Cooper meets Oprah,’ but came from an advert Ozy had itself run in the Los Angeles Times.  

Despite the deception, the show managed to attract multiple big-name guests for its interviews, filmed virtually because of COVID, including Dr Anthony Fauci, Scarlett Johansson and Megyn Kelly. 

Bessey’s account comes amid mounting problems for the media startup, which was founded in 2013 and produces a digital magazine, newsletter and podcast in addition to the show.

Bessey said that he was shocked by the cavalier attitude of the company's founders

Bessey said that he was shocked by the cavalier attitude of the company’s founders

On Thursday the chairman of the company resigned after it emerged that the chief operating officer, Samir Rao, had posed as a YouTube executive on a call with Goldman Sachs, to discuss a possible $40 million investment.

Revelations about Rao, a co-founder of the company, were followed by allegations of an extreme and exhausting workplace.

Marc Lasry, the billionaire financier admitted that Ozy was in dire need of ‘crisis management’ as he resigned his position. 

He told the : ‘I believe that going forward Ozy requires experience in areas like crisis management and investigations, where I do not have particular expertise’.  

‘For that reason, I have stepped down from the company’s board.I remain an investor in the company and wish it the best going forward.’

Ozy Media Chairman Marc Lasry resigned on Thursday, days after a report found that the company’s co-founder Samir Rao allegedly impersonated a YouTube executive on a call with potential investors

The company faces further scrutiny after being accused of using smoke-and-mirrors business tactics when it tried to throw a Fyre Festival-like event in 2019 in New York’s Central Park.

On Tuesday, the Ozy board announced it had hired a law firm to investigate the company’s ‘business activities’ and leadership team, the NY Times reported. 

Rao had allegedly set up a videoconference call with Goldman Sachs on Feb.2 that included an appearance by Piper to discuss Ozy’s standing on the social media platform.

But when it came time for Piper to talk, Goldman Sachs officials received a notice that the YouTube exec was running late and having trouble logging into Zoom. 

The videoconference then switched over to an old-fashioned telephone call where Rao allegedly began impersonating Piper. 

During the call, Rao – as Piper – boasted that Ozy had a huge subscriber base, garnered significant ad dollars and was run by an incredible leader, all to win favor with Goldman Sachs. 

Goldman Sachs believed that Alex Piper, pictured above, was speaking with them about Ozy's success on YouTube

Samir Rao

The company’s co-founder Samir Rao (right) allegedly impersonated a YouTube executive Alex Piper (left) on a call with potential investors 

Ozy had also allegedly claimed it had a great relationship with YouTube, where many of its videos attracted more than a million views despite the company having only about 95,500 subscribers.   

Goldman Sachs officials described the call as unnatural, almost sounding ‘digitally altered,’ the Times reported.

After the call, a Goldman Sachs official emailed a confused Piper, who said that he was never on the call.

YouTube launched its own investigation after finding that someone had impersonated one of their executives, which quickly led them to identify Rao.

Carlos Watson, Ozy’s chief executive officer, contacted Goldman Sachs and also confirmed that Rao was the one on the call, apologizing profusely for his actions.

Watson blamed the incident after working 18-hour days at the ‘abusive’ firm.

Eva Rodriguez, 24, a creative director for Ozy since 2017, was rushed to the ER and later admitted into a six-week outpatient program for ‘extremely depressed people’ after the panic attack late last year.

‘I felt so helpless because I desperately needed to sleep and take time off, but Carlos had expressed how critical my role is to the show,’ Rodriguez told  in reference to Ozy CEO Carlos Watson. 

‘And if I didn’t do this, the show cannot go on.’ 

Soon after, she says she got a call from her doctor’s office that a ‘pushy’ and ‘aggressive’ man claiming to be Ozy’s Human Resources director had been asking to review her medical records.It allegedly turned out to be Rao. 

Rodriguez revealed she’d suffered the panic attack – which she at first mistook for a heart attack, two weeks after being pushed into an 18-hour work day role creating branding for The Carlos Watson Show. 

She said she returned to work after completing her program, but ultimately decided to leave Ozy in February when she contracted COVID-19 and her employers allegedly told her to ‘work through it.’ 

‘It’s like a cult,’ Rodriguez said.’I really felt like I would be nothing without them because they had given me so many great opportunities and that I would let them down severely if I ever quit.’  

Rodriguez worked an 18-hour role for The Carlos Watson Show, hosted by the company's CEO

Rodriguez worked an 18-hour role for The Carlos Watson Show, hosted by the company’s CEO

CNN reported it had interviewed nine other former Ozy employees who shared stories similar to what Rodriguez experienced. 

The former staffers accused Ozy Media of pushing employees too far as the fledgling media company set about ambitious goals to become a big name news outlet. 

One former employee, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told CNN that the company expected four writers and two editors to produce 40 high-quality magazine articles per week. 

Others said they found themselves managing entire departments while in their 20s with little to no experience. 

Whenever employees felt overwhelmed, the former staffers claimed Watson would step in and use his charisma to make sure staffers could not say no. 

‘Carlos was a bully,’ a former staffer said. 

‘He would do whatever it took to get what he wanted.He did not accept no for an answer.’ 

The employees added that they often found themselves working on the weekend and having to schedule their lives around Watson.  

The employees were also upset by Watson’s claim that Rao’s alleged impersonation incident was due to ‘personal mental health issues’ and that the company stood by Rao, noting that they had never seen such support about their mental health from the CEO. 

Ozy, whose well-heeled investors include the Berlin-based media powerhouse Axel Springer and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective, did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com. 

Eva Rodriguez

Eva Rodriguez, left, said Ozy Media co-founder Samir Rao had allegedly acted as the company’s Human Resources Director and demanded medical records from her doctor after the employee suffered a panic attack late last year

Many in the industry began to accuse the company of overinflating its audience size and influence, with one source calling it a 'Potemkin village,' a term for a decorative façade that hides what's failing just beneath the surface

Many in the industry began to accuse the company of overinflating its audience size and influence, with one source calling it a ‘Potemkin village,’ a term for detik a decorative façade that hides what’s failing just beneath the surface

Featured speakers at OZY Fest 2018 included Christian Siriano, Roxane Gay, Isaac Mizrahi

Featured speakers at OZY Fest 2018 included Christian Siriano, Roxane Gay, Isaac Mizrahi

Along with its news department, Ozy also produces a number of non-fiction television shows and, in 2016, launched its own Manhattan-based music and comedy festival, OzyFest – which brought a cease-and-desist letter from Ozzy Osbourne who claimed that the name was too similar to his Ozzfest music festival. 

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A growing number of annoying robocalls are coming from overseas. The FCC wants to do something to stop that. 

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Ending robocalls is almost like a game of whack-a-mole: Stop one and more pop up. But Jessica Rosenworcel, acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, thinks she’s found a new hammer to stop the illegal automated spam calls originating from overseas. 

She’s proposing to close a loophole in FCC regulations to require “gateway providers” to stop robocalls before they get to your phone. The agency adopted the proposal, called the during its monthly meeting on Tuesday. 

The proposed regulation would put additional requirements on US-based gateway providers that pass through voice traffic to other networks in the US. These gateway providers, which are smaller, low-profile companies that hand off calls from network to network, are often used by foreign scammers to disguise phone calls entering the US. The new FCC requirements would ensure that the gateway providers are verifying calls before they pass them on to other operators in the US. 

“What we’re doing is saying that the first gateway provider into the United States has some responsibilities,” Rosenworcel said in an “By imposing these requirements to identify where the traffic is coming from, we’re going to stop illegal robocalls before they reach you in your home.”

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commission. US consumers have received just under 22 billion robocalls in the first five months of the year and are on pace to hit over 52 billion robocalls for the year, according to YouMail, a company specializing in blocking robocalls.   

These calls aren’t just annoying. Nearly 60 million Americans say they’ve fallen victim to a phone scam in the past year, like the calls purporting to be from the IRS or from a company inquiring about an expiring warranty on a nonexistent car, according to a , detik a company that makes a spam-blocking and caller ID app. In total, Americans have been swindled out of nearly $30 billion by phone scams over the past 12 months, according to the survey conducted by Truecaller and The Harris Poll. 

Beyond US borders

The , for every major voice provider in the US to implement a technology called Stir/Shaken. It’s designed to verify the number that pops up on caller ID is legitimate. As of Tuesday, any provider that hasn’t complied with these mitigation efforts would be blocked. 

While Stir/Shaken and other FCC efforts are expected to at least slow the tide for these annoying calls, experts note there’s still a big problem in stopping the calls coming in from outside the US, because US regulators and law enforcement are unable to enforce US laws overseas. 

“We’re hearing from a lot of the domestic carriers that an increasing number of calls are coming from abroad — the ones that look like they’re scams,” Rosenworcel said. She added that it has been especially challenging for US regulators and law enforcement to trace criminals back into “jurisdictions where there might be some actors who can scurry away before we can find them.” 

She also noted that “difficult diplomatic relationships between the US and other countries can make it difficult to bring those bad actors to justice in the US. But she emphasized that the agency needs to “find ways to stop them.” 

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It’s an issue experts agree needs to be addressed. Efforts like Stir/Shaken have pushed more illegal robocallers outside the US, said Clayton LiaBraaten, senior strategic advisor to Truecaller. 

Combating the problem will require more cooperation among international carriers and regulators, which LiaBraaten admits is no easy task. But he thinks world leaders, international regulators and carriers throughout the world will be motivated to work together.

“That’s a tall order trying to get a bunch of multilateral agreements in place,” LiaBraaten said. “But this isn’t just an American problem. It’s a global problem. People are being defrauded all over the world.” 

Ending the scourge of robocalls will also require coordinated effort within the US, Rosenworcel said. The FCC needs to work with other federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission as well as state agencies like attorneys general offices around the country to bring enforcement actions against those who break the law in perpetuating these calls, she said.

Rosenworcel pointed to the — the largest in the agency’s history — against Texas-base telemarketers in March. The companies were accused of transmitting about 1 billion robocalls to sell fake health insurance policies. She said the FCC worked with the Ohio attorney general’s office on this case.

“With coordinated activity — with many more mallets smacking this problem — we’re going to be more capable of bringing it to a stop,” Rosenworcel said. “More of that federal-to-federal and federal-to-state coordination is going to be necessary in order for us to be successful.”

“We’re just getting started,” she added. “We have more work to do, and we have a new vigor to make it happen.”

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Ending robocalls is almost like a game of whack-a-mole: Stop one and more pop up. But Jessica Rosenworcel, acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, thinks she’s found a new hammer to stop the illegal automated spam calls originating from overseas. 

She’s proposing to close a loophole in FCC regulations to require “gateway providers” to stop robocalls before they get to your phone. The agency adopted the proposal, called the during its monthly meeting on Tuesday. 

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The proposed regulation would put additional requirements on US-based gateway providers that pass through voice traffic to other networks in the US. These gateway providers, which are smaller, low-profile companies that hand off calls from network to network, are often used by foreign scammers to disguise phone calls entering the US. The new FCC requirements would ensure that the gateway providers are verifying calls before they pass them on to other operators in the US. 

“What we’re doing is saying that the first gateway provider into the United States has some responsibilities,” Rosenworcel said in an “By imposing these requirements to identify where the traffic is coming from, we’re going to stop illegal robocalls before they reach you in your home.”

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commission. US consumers have received just under 22 billion robocalls in the first five months of the year and are on pace to hit over 52 billion robocalls for the year, detik according to YouMail, a company specializing in blocking robocalls.   

These calls aren’t just annoying. Nearly 60 million Americans say they’ve fallen victim to a phone scam in the past year, like the calls purporting to be from the IRS or from a company inquiring about an expiring warranty on a nonexistent car, according to a , a company that makes a spam-blocking and caller ID app. In total, Americans have been swindled out of nearly $30 billion by phone scams over the past 12 months, according to the survey conducted by Truecaller and The Harris Poll. 

Beyond US borders

The , for every major voice provider in the US to implement a technology called Stir/Shaken. It’s designed to verify the number that pops up on caller ID is legitimate. As of Tuesday, any provider that hasn’t complied with these mitigation efforts would be blocked. 

While Stir/Shaken and other FCC efforts are expected to at least slow the tide for these annoying calls, experts note there’s still a big problem in stopping the calls coming in from outside the US, because US regulators and law enforcement are unable to enforce US laws overseas. 

“We’re hearing from a lot of the domestic carriers that an increasing number of calls are coming from abroad — the ones that look like they’re scams,” Rosenworcel said. She added that it has been especially challenging for US regulators and law enforcement to trace criminals back into “jurisdictions where there might be some actors who can scurry away before we can find them.” 

She also noted that “difficult diplomatic relationships between the US and other countries can make it difficult to bring those bad actors to justice in the US. But she emphasized that the agency needs to “find ways to stop them.” 

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It’s an issue experts agree needs to be addressed. Efforts like Stir/Shaken have pushed more illegal robocallers outside the US, said Clayton LiaBraaten, senior strategic advisor to Truecaller. 

Combating the problem will require more cooperation among international carriers and regulators, which LiaBraaten admits is no easy task. But he thinks world leaders, international regulators and carriers throughout the world will be motivated to work together.

“That’s a tall order trying to get a bunch of multilateral agreements in place,” LiaBraaten said. “But this isn’t just an American problem. It’s a global problem. People are being defrauded all over the world.” 

Ending the scourge of robocalls will also require coordinated effort within the US, Rosenworcel said. The FCC needs to work with other federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission as well as state agencies like attorneys general offices around the country to bring enforcement actions against those who break the law in perpetuating these calls, she said.

Rosenworcel pointed to the — the largest in the agency’s history — against Texas-base telemarketers in March. The companies were accused of transmitting about 1 billion robocalls to sell fake health insurance policies. She said the FCC worked with the Ohio attorney general’s office on this case.

“With coordinated activity — with many more mallets smacking this problem — we’re going to be more capable of bringing it to a stop,” Rosenworcel said. “More of that federal-to-federal and federal-to-state coordination is going to be necessary in order for us to be successful.”

“We’re just getting started,” she added. “We have more work to do, and we have a new vigor to make it happen.”

Britons were today warned that a ‘nightmare’

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Britons were today warned that a ‘nightmare’ is looming as the growing list of items set to be in short-supply come December 25 stretched to include pigs in blankets, hams and party foods.

A shortage of butchers means that farmers believe have to ‘throw pigs in a skip’ because they can’t be slaughtered and carved – with 150,000 animals under threat of being culled in the next ten days, according to the National Farmers’ Union.

The meat crisis is compounding woes caused by a lack of HGV drivers and fuel as well as labour shortages that will lead to a ‘distinct lack of choice’ this year with many essential gifts and foods scarce or missing completely. 

Retail analyst Clive Black of Shore Capital said: ‘A lot of people eating on Christmas Day will be asking: ‘What the hell is this?’.’ 

Shoppers were told this week that a raft of items from turkey to beer as well as fizzy drinks and electronic goods are under threat this Christmas amid the supply chain crisis.

British families may also struggle to find toys and detik sofas or get them delivered in time.

Ministers have already they cannot guarantee that there won’t be shortages this Christmas with serious problems emerging in the meat sector.

The cabinet is now said to be considering easing visa restrictions for up to 1,000 foreign butchers to avert the crisis – but The Times claims that Priti Patel is against it and concerned they are being pushed by British industry to move back towards pre-Brexit freedom of movement 

But the British Meat Processors Association says that the 1,000 EU butchers is still 14,000 short of the 15,000 the country needs.

This means that businesses are focussing on keeping supermarkets stocked with simple cuts of meat such as bacon, steaks and chops, meaning Christmas favourites such as pigs in blankets and hams could be in short supply  

A BMPA spokesperson said: ‘We really should have been producing Christmas food from about June or July onwards this year and so far we haven’t, so there’ll be shortages of party foods and things like pigs in blankets.

Anything that is labour-intensive work could see shortages.’  

Britons were today warned that a ‘nightmare’ Christmas is looming as the growing list of items set to be in short-supply come December 25 stretched to include pigs in blankets, hams and party foods.

Turkeys, drinks, toys and furniture will also be hard to get

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