HÖHENKIRCHEN/MUNICH: As m4e continues to expand its rights portfolio, the company is also growing its licensing and merchandising team, with three executive appointments.

SYDNEY: Presto has arrived on Fetch TV, allowing customers to access TV shows and movies from the app directly from their television sets.

LA ROCHELLE: Leading Terra Mater Factual Studios’s Sunny Side of the Doc (SSD) slate is David Attenborough’s Light on Earth, which sees the titular host explore bioluminescence.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has acquired U.S. and select international rights for Ricky Gervais’s upcoming film David Brent: Life on the Road, a spin-off of his hit comedy series The Office.

NEW YORK: Viacom has reduced its financial expectations for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, citing the "disappointing" theatrical performance of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows as well as a delay in completing a significant SVOD agreement.

BURBANK: FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has announced a lineup of licensing partners for the upcoming TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s contemporary fantasy novel American Gods, debuting next year on Starz.

NEW YORK: The WorldScreen.com NATPE Budapest Preview provides you with a number of useful services in one location, including a downloadable PDF of company suite numbers at the InterContinental.

Nick Smith, the senior VP of format production at all3media international, discusses the dating format.

The economic problems plaguing a number of Latin American markets have led Zenith to lower its forecast for global ad expenditure, which it now projects will rise by 4.1 percent this year as compared with the 4.6 percent gain predicted in March. Zenith said the downward revision was a result of recession and currency devaluation in LatAm territories, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela, which account for more than half of the region's ad spend.

LONDON: Nickelodeon has extended its partnership with Leomil Group to bring apparel and footwear based on the hit preschool property PAW Patrol to parts of Europe.