Google announced this week that, effective immediately, Google TV will no longer allow users to buy new TV shows through the platform or the app on mobile, instead shifting that over to YouTube going forward. It’s a bizarre move but, in my eyes, Google has always been an awful place to buy TV shows anyway, so it’s probably not the worst idea to do away with it altogether.
Google TV has supported buying TV shows and movies since it was still called “Google Play Movies & TV,” but it’s never felt particularly well-suited for that job. At least, that’s the case on the Google TV platform itself.
I’ve personally always felt like this is a mess.
The switch from a dedicated Play Movies & TV app to the Google TV launcher is messy enough for movies, where everything is thrown into an alphabetical, horizontally scrolling nightmare that should have been changed years ago (and that Android TV is better at!)
For TV shows, the same picker is active, but…
Source 9to5google.com