The New Nintendo TVii service launches today, in a press release Nintendo said:

“Nintendo TVii maximizes Wii U owners’ current cable, satellite and video-on-demand services by pulling all of their available content sources into one place. This empowers Wii U owners to focus on what they want to watch and not how they want to watch. And once users find the show, sporting event or movie they want, they press an icon and Nintendo TVii does the rest.”

Using the Wii U GamePad's second-screen users will have access to additional content as well as their favourite streaming services.

Right now this is only available to US and Canada, with Europe and Japan following next year.