Joanna Padovano Tong

TORONTO: 9 Story Media Group has hired Blake Tohana, a former Tricon Films & Television executive, as the company's chief financial officer, while Brown Bag Films CEO Cathal Gaffney becomes 9 Story's COO.

NEW YORK/KABUL: Sesame Workshop is introducing Zari, the first Afghan Muppet, in the fifth season of Baghch-e-Simsim, the local co-production of Sesame Street.

CANNES: Shows from Japan, Australia, the U.K., Netherlands and Norway picked up wins at last night's fourth annual International Emmy Kids Awards, which were held for the first time at MIPTV.

BURBANK: Thomas O. Staggs, the chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company who was expected to take Robert A. Iger's place as CEO, is leaving the company.

BEVERLY HILLS/GLENDALE: This July, Netflix is due to debut Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, an all-new Netflix original series based on the 2015 DreamWorks Animation (DWA) movie.

TORONTO: Boat Rocker Media has acquired Radical Sheep, the production company behind such series as Big Comfy Couch, Stella and Sam, Fangbone! and The Bagel and Becky Show.

HO CHI MINH CITY: Turner has signed an agreement with POPS Worldwide to launch Boomerang on the POPS Kids non-linear platform in Vietnam.

PARIS: WeKids has acquired the exclusive distribution rights in Greater China to more than 130 half-hours of a trio of hit animated series from Cyber Group Studios.

ATLANTA: Cartoon Network has given the go-ahead to fifth seasons of the popular original series Steven Universe and Uncle Grandpa.

GLENDALE: ZAG has teamed up with Action Lab Entertainment (ALE) to develop comic books and graphic novels for North America based on the hit 3D CGI show Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.