Remakes of popular film franchises sparked the most conversation during the fall TV season's official premiere week, though online chatter tells an entirely different story, according to exclusive results of an annual survey by Keller Fay Group, a New Jersey research firm.

CBS'MacGyver and Fox's Lethal Weapon and The Exorcist generated the most talk among 20 new fall shows on the major broadcast networks, 12 of which had their premieres by Sept. 25, according to the online survey. The poll measures what viewers are talking about with their friends in face-to-face, phone and email conversations, which represents the majority of interactions. But on social-media networks, public blogs and forums, NBC's This Is Us, ABC's Designated Survivor and Fox's Pitch sparked the most discussion. Neither Pitch nor ABC's Notorious, another top-5 series based on online discussion, appeared among the 10 top conversation starters offline.

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