| 100% | VAMPIRES | 8 | Buffy slayed these in the long-running TV series |
| 50% | LOPE | 4 | This should be good in the long run |
| 46% | ACHE | 4 | Feeling in the long run? |
| 46% | LASSIE | 6 | Long-running TV series set in Calverton |
| 46% | SOUTHPARK | 9 | Long-running TV series set in Colorado |
| 46% | ENDUP | 5 | Come out in the long run |
| 45% | CSI | 3 | Long-running TV series set in Las Vegas |
| 45% | ACHES | 5 | They may appear in the long run |
| 45% | GRANDAD | 7 | BBC TV series for children starring Clive Dunn in the title role which ran from 1979-84 |
| 44% | SHOESTRING | 10 | BBC TV series set in Bristol starring Trevor Eve in the title role that ran from 1979-80 |
| 44% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 42% | HOUSEONTHE | 10 | "Little ___ Prairie," NBC TV series about a family living on a farm in the 1870s that ran from 1974 - 1983: 3 wds. |
| 42% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 41% | POTTERS | 7 | Harry, Lily and James are these in the book series |
| 41% | STARTREK | 8 | Enterprise is the ship in this TV series |
| 41% | SEALTEAM | 8 | TV series starring David Boreanaz in the Navy |
| 41% | GIRL | 4 | "The ___ in the Mirror" (supernatural TV series) |
| 41% | REBECCA | 7 | * ___ Pearson, mother to Kevin, Kate, and Randall in the 2010s TV series "This Is Us" |
| 41% | ANIME | 5 | Japanese cartoon style used in the "Pokémon" TV series |
| 40% | SOUTHPARK | 9 | Long-running animated series set in the Rockies: 2 wds. |
| 40% | TATTOO | 6 | Many a clue in the TV series "Blindspot" |
| 40% | OBSERVER | 8 | Bald time traveler in the Fringe TV series |
| 40% | SUN | 3 | Blue ___, corporation featured in the TV series "Firefly" |
| 40% | EUGENE | 6 | Wednesday's bee buddy in the TV series |
| 40% | ELBA | 4 | "In the Long Run" creator/star Idris |
| 39% | OMAR | 4 | ___ Epps, actor who starred in the TV series "House" |
| 39% | ASHOWABOUTNOTHING | 17 | Description of the TV series spelled out in the circled squares (as well as this puzzle's theme) |
| 39% | BLUE | 4 | This 14-season TV series bid farewell to the silver screen in 2024. Give it up for the NYPD drama series, "___ Bloods"! |
| 39% | LADY | 4 | "___ in the Lake" (Apple TV+ series based on a Laura Lippman novel) |
| 39% | GHOSTPROTOCOL | 13 | "Mission Impossible: ___," fourth part of the long-running series in which Josh Holloway portrays an IMF agent Trevor Hanaway: 2 wds. |