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It's often said there are only three events that are guaranteed the biggest global audiences: Olympic Games, World Cups - and major British Royal landmarks.

We'll find out in the next few days just how much a Royal Wedding unites Britain and the wider world, and this isn't a post that's going to compare relative audiences because we know all three are huge.

But I want to share a few thoughts about the art of viewing figures and then about what links these events in a digital age.

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There'll be a gap in our viewing from this week as Twenty Twelve comes to the end of its run on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four.

But there's good news for its devotees, who include most of our office and quite a number of our colleagues over at Locog.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has announced there'll be a second series, and you can read the press release - including an exclusive quote from head of deliverance, Ian Fletcher.

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