Save Our Shows 2023: See how your TV favorites fared in USA TODAY's exclusive poll

Gary Levin, USA TODAY
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The results are in: Fox's rescue drama "9-1-1," starring Angela Bassett and Peter Krause, was the clear favorite among voters in USA TODAY's 26th annual Save Our Shows poll.

And for the second year in a row, the winning series will switch networks in the fall. Like "Magnum, P.I.," last year's winner that was canceled by CBS but moved to NBC, "9-1-1" is headed to ABC. That network's studio, 20th Century Fox, owns the show, so ABC snapped it up after Fox balked at its price tag ‒ reportedly more than $9 million an episode ‒ amid ratings declines.

9-1-1: Pictured: Angela Bassett. CR: Mathieu Young/ FOX. © 2018 FOX Broadcasting.
9-1-1: Pictured: Angela Bassett. CR: Mathieu Young/ FOX. © 2018 FOX Broadcasting.

More than 59% of voters wanted "9-1-1" back, and just 8% wanted it dropped; the rest said they didn't care either way. Other top winners: ABC's medical drama "The Good Doctor" (54% wanted to keep it); ABC's freshman drama "Alaska Daily," starring Hilary Swank (48%); and CBS' "S.W.A.T." (42%). The fates of these series, and the rest of the 21 scripted primetime broadcast shows hovering "on the bubble" between renewal and cancellation, will be revealed over the next two weeks, as the major networks set their 2023-24 schedules amid a writers' strike that could delay the fall season's traditional September start.

In all, 57,300 voters picked their favorites ‒ and their least favorites. Other top choices were CBS' "East New York," ABC's "The Rookie" spinoff "The Rookie: Feds," starring Niecy Nash and further back, another first-year ABC series, "The Company You Keep," starring Milo Ventimiglia.

Which shows did voters most want the networks to dump? "Lopez vs. Lopez" claimed that dubious honor: 25% wanted NBC to dump it ‒ compared with just 13% who want it to return for a second season – followed by Fox's "Fantasy Island" revamp (24% want it canceled) and NBC's perennial Dwayne Johnson bubble show "Young Rock" (23%, compared with just 12% who hope it's renewed.)

Mayan and George Lopez star in NBC's "Lopez vs. Lopez," which voters most wanted canceled in USA TODAY's Save Our Shows poll.
Mayan and George Lopez star in NBC's "Lopez vs. Lopez," which voters most wanted canceled in USA TODAY's Save Our Shows poll.

CW typically generates the lowest interest in the poll, but this year NBC's sitcom "Grand Crew" drew the weakest support: Just 7% of voters wanted it back. CW, in the process of dismantling its superhero lineup of scripted shows, had more support for "Walker" (17% hope it returns) and "Superman & Lois" (16%).

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Save Our Shows: Which favorite topped 26th annual TV poll