Oh Danny Boyle. The Slumdog Millionaire director’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics started with such verve and promise. There were fireworks! There were sheep! There were geese! There ...

The Games kicked off with a Shakespeare reading, pastoral scenes and the queen. July 27, 2012 — -- London's Olympic Stadium became a vast meadow in an opening ceremony that at first evoked the ...

The Olympics Opening Ceremony confronted us with a vision of the United Kingdom that divided audiences. (Tory backbencher Aidan Burley tweeted that Danny Boyle’s show was “multicultural crap” and “the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record 40.7 million Americans watched NBC television's coverage of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, making it the most-watched Summer Games opening, NBC said on Saturday.

Liz Truss has criticised the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, despite praising it in the past. In her latest bizarre rant, the former prime minister claimed that the spectacular ...