Who asked for this? YouTube Shorts are coming to your Google TV home screen

• A new “Short videos for you” row featuring YouTube Shorts will arrive on US Google TV home screens this summer.
• Starting today, Nano Banana and Veo AI features are rolling out to Gemini-enabled TCL Google TVs in the US, allowing for custom image and video generation.
• New Gemini-based Google Photos features, such as search, artistic remixing, and dynamic slideshows, are also coming to eligible devices, though Google didn’t share a timeline for them.

Whether you asked for it or not, the “phone experience” is officially taking over the biggest screen in your house. After teasing a suite of Gemini AI-driven updates at CES 2026, Google is finally pulling the trigger on a major Google TV overhaul in the US. While the update brings sophisticated Gemini-powered tools like Nano Banana and Veo to select TCL sets, the most polarising change will be landing soon right on your home screen: a dedicated row for YouTube Shorts. If you’ve ever felt that your living room was missing the ability to doomscroll through vertical video, your wait is almost over.

Short videos are coming to your Google TV home screen