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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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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