things users liked tagged "tv" at lik.io http://lik.io/tag/tv 2012-02-10T22:46:15+01:00 text/html 2009-07-31T14:25:09+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/601 LG's stunning SL90 LED-backed display has a "Borderless" design which makes for an ultra slim bezel creating an almost edge to edge view of your video. Available in 42 to 47 inch sizes, the screens offer up a 3,000,000:1 contrast ratio and a Mark Levinso tuned "invisible speaker" system.]]> text/html 2009-06-12T14:13:06+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/578 The universal experience of teenagehood as lived by the regular old freaks and geeks in a Michigan high school, circa 1980, is the subject of this wistful comedy-drama executive-produced by Emmy-winner Judd Apatow and series creator Paul Feig.]]> text/html 2009-05-15T02:01:32+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/543 Walt White is an ordinary chemistry teacher sleeping his way through life, but when he is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he finally wakes up and begins to live life to the fullest. Realizing that he needs to provide financially for his pregnant wife and special needs son once he's gone, Walt puts his chemistry skills to use by creating a rolling meth lab.]]> text/html 2009-05-15T01:59:30+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/542 "Party Down" follows a Los Angeles catering team - a sextet of Hollywood wannabes stuck working for tips while hoping for their "big break." Each episode of this half-hour comedy finds the hapless catering team working a new event - and inevitably getting tangled up with the colorful guests and their absurd lives.]]> text/html 2009-04-01T01:43:31+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/503 "Kings" is a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances -- and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom.]]> text/html 2009-03-13T12:15:41+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/432 Jerry Seinfeld is a very successful stand-up comedian, mainly because the people around him offer an endless supply of great material. His best friend is George Costanza, a bald, whiny loser who craves the kind of success Jerry has but is never willing to do what it takes to get it. Jerry's neighbor Kramer often barges into his apartment and imposes onto his life. In the second episode Jerry's former girlfriend Elaine Benes comes back into his life, and the four of them are able to form a friendship together. The episodes were rarely very plot-heavy, focusing more on mundane conversations and situations that could be found during everyday life in New York.]]> text/html 2009-03-13T01:47:54+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/428 Saturday Night Live veteran Jimmy Fallon takes the Late Night reins from Conan O'Brien when O'Brien succeeds Jay Leno as new host of The Tonight Show in 2009.]]> text/html 2009-03-13T00:41:00+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/427 Liz Lemon, played by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, is the head writer of the fictional TV show, 'The Girlie Show.' When her old boss dies and a new boss comes in, Liz must try to run a successful TV show without losing her mind.]]> text/html 2009-03-13T00:38:33+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/426 Based on the popular British series of the same name, this faster-paced American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at paper company Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch via a documentary film crew's cameras.]]> text/html 2009-03-12T18:32:27+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/421 Scrubs focuses on the lives of several people working at Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the central character, Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian.]]> text/html 2009-03-12T18:28:54+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/420 The Emmy Award-winning comedy series Arrested Development revolves around Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), the “normal” one in a family of crazies, who is forced to stay in Orange County and run the family real estate business after his father, George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), is sent to prison for shifty accounting practices. While George Sr. spent the last year in the slammer discovering his newfound Judaism and recording inspirational tapes, Michael spent it picking up the pieces and trying to teach his offbeat family how to live without an endless expense account.]]> text/html 2009-03-12T14:45:01+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/419 A weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show broadcast live from Studio 8H at the GE Building in New York's Rockefeller Center. The show is one of the longest-running network programs in American television history and and has launched careers for many major American comedy stars of the last thirty years.]]> text/html 2009-03-09T23:53:21+01:00 brandon http://lik.io/like/385 How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segal, Freaks and Geeks), decides to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ted realizes that time may be running out on finding the love of his life. His friend Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, Doogie Howser MD) is the anti-Marshall, a guy who thinks he knows everything about meeting women and isn't afraid to tell you.]]>