The Hammonds are a family that features a former President, the current Secretary of State, and a rising political son. While some of them want try to get into politics themselves, others want nothing to do with it.
Political Animals is a six-episode series in which Sigourney Weaver plays the former First Lady-turned current Secretary of State who ran for president and is not against likening herself to Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ciarán stars as her philandering ex-husband who also used to be the president. If it’s written “Clinton” all over it, be sure that any resemblance is absolutely coincidental!
With a cast including Sigourney Weaver, Ciarán Hinds, Carla Gugino, Adrian Pasdar, Sebastian Stan, and Dylan Baker, the upcoming USA Network show raises great expectations.
Ciarán will star opposite Sigourney Weaver in USA Network’s six part drama Political Animals. The story centers around Elaine Barrish, a former first lady and newly-appointed secretary of State, who tries to deal with political crises and her own personal issues.
Ciarán will play Bud Hammond, a jovial jovial former president and Elaine’s ex-husband, who is much in love with his ex-wife and eager to take on the role of elder statesman if she calls on him.
The Shore has won the Oscar for Live Action Short Film. Director Terry George said the people of Northern Ireland had inspired the film and he dedicated the Oscar to “the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers”.
“I may be involved in another theatre project later in the year. At the moment we wait to see if the Lynda La Plante Above Suspicion got the figures that it needs to get to see if they will make another one. And meanwhile a script has landed in the door just yesterday; a small film but I don’t know the dates on that. So at the moment literally I finish on the 26th of February and either I get the sandwich board out and march up and down or something will turn up,” Ciarán said this week on RTÉ.
“The idea of getting to drive Daniel Radcliffe around the Yorkshire Dales in a 1913 Rolls Royce – I didn’t know that would ever happen to me, but it was a joy.” The Woman In Black is directed by James Watkins and will be released to US theaters on February 3rd and in the UK on February 10th.
Above Suspicion returned for a fourth season and was aired weekly instead of over consecutive nights. The latest figures reveal the concluding part of Silent Scream was seen by 5.7 million viewers at 9pm on January 24th. Are Langton and Travis destined never to be together, or could they? Hopefully we will almost certainly be given another good story next year and maybe know more about their complex relationship…
The Shore, written, directed and produced by Terry George, is one of the movies selected in the best short film category. The 30-minute film was shot entirely in Northern Ireland on location in Killough. Ciarán said it was a “lovely story about reconciliation and people reconnecting”.
Based on a 1983 thriller fiction novel by Susan Hill and remake of a film released in 1989, The Woman In Black is a true ghost story. The featurette provides an insight from the director’s vision about the spectre and more. Author Susan Hill, screenwriter Jane Golman and actor Ciarán Hinds give their points of view about the story.
The Hammonds are a family that features a former President, the current Secretary of State, and a rising political son. While some of them want try to get into politics themselves, others want nothing to do with it. 
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