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5 March 2013 11:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

America's Poor Kids | Michael Grade And The World's Oldest Joke | Show Dogs: The Road To Crufts | Russell Brand's Give It Up For Comic Relief | Parks And Recreation | First Among Equals: The Laurie Cunningham Story | Anna & Katy

America's Poor Kids

9pm, BBC2

This documentary opens with a statistic that feels scandalous, recession or no recession: 16 million American children live within the technical definition of poverty. Jezza Neumann's affecting but unsentimental film is a companion to a study he made of poor British children in 2011. He meets young Americans doomed, through no fault of their own, to lives of struggle. In no case is the American dream entirely extinguished, but it's horrible to listen to children being so grimly pragmatic about their prospects. Andrew Mueller

Michael Grade And The World's Oldest Joke

9pm, BBC4

The former chief exec of Channel 4 goes in search of the origins of the »

- Andrew Mueller, Julia Raeside, Hannah Verdier, Martin Skegg, Rebecca Nicholson, Gwilym Mumford, Ben Arnold

4 March 2013 2:00 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »

She's Anna, she's Katy, and together they are Anna and Katy!

A couple of years after their well-received Comedy Lab, Anna Crilly and Katy Wix have finally got their own full-length sketch show, which starts this Wednesday on Channel 4.

As big fans of sketch, Digital Spy were very excited to sit down with the duo to quiz them about comedy, controversy, and sharing an award nomination with Rylan Clark. Here's what they had to say.

When did you decide to start doing sketch together?

Anna: "We met doing stand-up in 2003 and we weren't very good at it! Either of us. We both thought each other were funny."

Katy: "Dreadful... I hadn't really seen any comedy, that was my problem."

Anna: "I certainly wasn't ready to do an hour of stand-up at Edinburgh the following year. So I said to old Wixy, 'Let's get together and do some sketches'. And the rest is herstory. »

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