| 100% | AMERICAN | 8 | With 14-Across, long-running TV show popularized by 63-Across |
| 46% | CSI | 3 | Long-running TV show with a two-hour finale called "Immortality" |
| 46% | DANCE | 5 | With 34-Across, music-based TV show first hosted by Deney Terrio |
| 44% | PRESUMED | 8 | With 33-Across, current Apple TV+ show created by David E. Kelley, based on a Scott Turow novel |
| 42% | ITSAKNOCKOUT | 12 | Long-running BBC TV game show originally hosted by McDonald Hobley in 1966 |
| 41% | THEPRICEISRIGHT | 15 | Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 40% | MEETTHEPRESS | 12 | Longest-running TV show |
| 40% | CONCENTRATION | 13 | Classic memory-testing TV game show with a home version by 48-Across |
| 40% | WINLOSEORDRAW | 13 | Classic Pictionary TV game show with a home version by 48-Across (4 wds.) |
| 40% | SNL | 3 | NBC's long running skit show with over 90 Primetime Emmys: Abbr. |
| 39% | CONCENTRATION | 13 | Long-running TV show featuring match-makers |
| 39% | SOAPS | 5 | Some long-running TV shows |
| 39% | SOAPS | 5 | Many long-running TV shows |
| 39% | THEPHANTOM | 10 | With 60-Across, longest-running show in Broadway history as of 1/9/06 |
| 38% | PEOPLEARE | 9 | With 14-Across, 1967 psychedelic rock song by 21-/22-Across |
| 37% | NCIS | 4 | Long-running TV crime show |
| 37% | MEETTHEPRESS | 12 | Longest-running network TV show |
| 37% | LOVE | 4 | "___ Your Garden," British TV show with themed gardens, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh |
| 37% | DAYSOFOURLIVES | 14 | Long-running TV show featuring the Hortons and the Bradys |
| 37% | SNL | 3 | Long-running TV variety show inits. |
| 37% | REALWORLD | 9 | Long-running MTV show, with "The" |
| 37% | DIANE | 5 | ___ Chambers, character on the TV show "Cheers" who was played by Shelley Long |
| 37% | VICTORY | 7 | "The ___ Garden," American TV show with gardening tips once hosted by Jamie Durie |
| 37% | SPACES | 6 | "Big Dreams, Small ___," British TV show with amateur gardeners, hosted by Monty Don |
| 37% | MEL | 3 | With 14-Across, slugger signed by the Giants at age 16 |
| 36% | NEIGHBORLY | 10 | Like Fred Rogers on his long-running TV show |
| 36% | YOUBETYOURLIFE | 14 | TV show with one of 36-Across |
| 36% | CSI | 3 | Long-running CBS show with three spinoffs |
| 36% | CSI | 3 | Long-running CBS show with four spinoffs |
| 36% | OPRAH | 5 | Long-running hit TV show based in Chicago |