this is a french guy (Marc Maggiori) who got financed by France2 (the equivalent of canada's CBC or CTV and america's ABC)
[quibble]This surely must be wrong.
I'm assuming that France2 is a public broadcaster like the CBC or BBC or PBS.
CTV is a division of Bell Globemedia, a private company, and ABC is owned by Disney - definately not a government broadcaster.[/quibble]
But yeah, the backgrounds are pretty blantant.