| 100% | SOPRANOS | 8 | TV Guide's "Best Series of All Time," with "The" |
| 58% | BEATLES | 7 | The best-selling musical act of all time, with the |
| 52% | MASH | 4 | TV series with the all-time most-watched episode |
| 52% | SNL | 3 | TV show with the most Emmy nominations of all time, familiarly (350+) |
| 51% | CIRCLEOFFRIENDS | 15 | Shape's pick for the best movie of all time? |
| 51% | RAGINGBULL | 10 | Mad's pick for the best movie of all time? |
| 50% | TWENTYFIVE | 10 | With 26-Down, the place of today's puzzle among all New York Times crosswords |
| 50% | OCEANSELEVEN | 12 | The Atlantic's pick for the best movie of all time? |
| 49% | STYX | 4 | Band with the hits "The Best of Times" and "Babe" |
| 49% | SCHOOLOFROCK | 12 | Rolling Stone's pick for the best movie of all time? |
| 48% | ABRONXTALE | 10 | The New Yorker's pick for the best movie of all time? |
| 47% | ASHOWABOUTNOTHING | 17 | Description of the TV series spelled out in the circled squares (as well as this puzzle's theme) |
| 47% | CITY | 4 | TV series "Sex and the ___" with Sarah Jessica Parker that is based on Candace Bushnell's novel of the same name |
| 47% | LOISLANE | 8 | Subject of the 2023 TV series "My Adventures With Superman" |
| 46% | SOPRANOS | 8 | #1 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" list, with "The" |
| 46% | WHY | 3 | TV series "13 Reasons ___" with Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford that is based on Jay Asher's novel of the same name |
| 46% | BIGLITTLELIES | 13 | TV series with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman that is based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name: 3 wds. |
| 46% | ELI | 3 | ___Gold, chief of staff on the TV series "The Good Wife" |
| 46% | EXPOS | 5 | Team with the best record in MLB at the time of the season-ending 1994 strike |
| 46% | GOSSIPGIRL | 10 | TV series with Blake Lively and Leighton Meester that is based on Cecily von Ziegesar's novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 46% | TASHA | 5 | Actress Smith of the Tyler Perry TV series "For Better or Worse" |
| 45% | THEWIRE | 7 | TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy |
| 45% | SQUID | 5 | "___ Game," most-watched Netflix series of all time |
| 45% | NBC | 3 | Network with the all-time greatest number of Emmys |
| 45% | BROWN | 5 | "Murphy ___," winner of the 1990 Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy TV Series |
| 44% | COSMOS | 6 | 1980 TV series with the episode "Harmony of the Worlds" |
| 44% | MEMORYLANE | 10 | Old Dominion No. 4 country single with the lyrics "Yeah, I might as well live there, baby / That's where I spend most of my time" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | PAT | 3 | "___ the Bunny" (one of the all-time best-selling children's books) |
| 44% | LOST | 4 | TV series that began with the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 |
| 44% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |