Since its launch final yr, Google has been rolling out its new TV interface to extra units and providers. Last week, Android TV exported a few of Google TV’s greatest options together with a watchlist, really helpful tuning and element pages. Now, it is the flip of the Google TV app on Android, previously Play Movies & TV, an all-round leisure hub for streaming, shopping for and renting motion pictures and TV exhibits. Courtesy of a brand new replace, the app is getting a recent design and a raft of latest actuality, world and dwell TV programming.

As if the branding wasn’t convoluted sufficient, to make issues extra sophisticated the service is simply out there within the US. For everybody else, there’s the Play Movies & TV app, which is proscribed to digital downloads. 

With that out of the way in which, let’s take a more in-depth take a look at the brand new stuff. In phrases of latest content material, Google is including programming from Discovery+ and Rakuten’s Asian drama streamer Viki, together with youngsters’ exhibits from Cartoon Network, PBS youngsters, and Boomerang and dwell TV from YouTube TV, Philo and fuboTV. 

A brand new design, in the meantime, ought to make deciding what to look at that tad bit simpler. Google is emphasising film and TV exhibits with 16:9 widescreen posters, under which you’ll find Rotten Tomatoes scores. The firm has additionally improved its discovery algorithm that matches film and exhibits to your tastes. You can put it to the check by scouring the brand new rows of customized suggestions, together with new sub-genres like sci-fi thrillers and summer season blockbusters.