Branagh also had a starring role in this summer's Olympics Opening Ceremony.
The concert on 27 July will coincide with the Olympics opening ceremony, which will be broadcast on big screens in the park between performances.
It was one of the biggest live shows of all time but Danny Boyle has admitted that directing the Olympics opening ceremony was less stressful than making a movie.
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The 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and popular drama Call the Midwife are among six programmes vying to take the Radio Times audience title at this year's Bafta Television Awards.
The winner is chosen by librarians and other writers, including Frank Cottrell Boyce who won the award in 2005 and worked alongside Danny Boyle on the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
Olympics opening ceremony director Danny Boyle, artists Jeremy Deller and Rachel Whiteread and Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota joined the sculptor's daughter Mary Moore in signing a letter asking the council to reconsider.
The interest in the Paralympics is not yet as strong as the Olympics - Channel 4's Paralympic opening ceremony coverage was watched by a peak audience of 11.2 million viewers compared with the 26.9 million who watched the Olympics opening ceremony on BBC One.
Most people from outside the UK will continue to have to buy tickets through authorized resellers in each country ahead of the Olympics' opening ceremony on July 27.
The first episode of "Sports Illustrated" will air three days before the opening ceremony of Olympics.
The 2012 London Olympics will begin with the opening ceremony on Friday 27 July and run for more than two weeks.
Rowling declined, more than once, an invitation to appear at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Most of Triumph's crew have missed out on this year's landmark events such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
This is the precision and scale and theatre of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics ten-fold.
This year Zhang Yimou, a film director who choreographed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, is to arrange a gala afterwards.
Some local newspapers have even reported pregnant women requesting to deliver on August 8, by Cesarean section if necessary, to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
He has been recognised for his role as director of the opening ceremony at the London 2012 Olympics.
Rowling appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and American Idol also received three creative arts trophies.
London (CNN) -- Olympics organizers have identified a mystery woman who gatecrashed the Opening Ceremony and marched with India's contingent in the Parade of Nations, they say.
Pacific Time on Friday, the day of the Opening Ceremony, Twitter says the volume of tweets mentioning the Olympics surpassed the cumulative number of such tweets posted during the entire span of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Her bronze medal at the 2005 world championships made her a favorite for the Turin Olympics, and she was chosen to carry Italy's flag in the opening ceremony.
But all the firestorm was in the past as Semenya -- who is coached by 2000 Sydney Olympics 800m champion Maria Mutola --carried the South African flag in the opening ceremony in London.
Soon after the London Olympics, Pistorius led his national team onto the track as South African Flag-bearer in the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
The impact of the Olympics on dance reached deeper and broader levels here by including some 7, 500 volunteers in the opening ceremony and 3, 500 in the closing.
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