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Cancer can't stop Patrick Swayze from starring in a new tv show!

June 8th 2008 18:06

Don't expect the Dirty Dancing actor to be slowing down any time soon! Despite recently being diagnosed with life-threatening case of pancreatic cancer, Patrick Swayze fully intends on going through with his planned drama series for A&E.

From the New York Times:

Executives from A&E and Sony Pictures Television, the studio producing the show, said on Friday that based on reports from Mr. Swayze and his doctors, they had made the decision to go forward with the series, “The Beast,” in which Mr. Swayze plays an F.B.I. agent with a checkered past.


In an e-mail message on Friday, Mr. Swayze said, “I can’t wait to get to work on this.”

Mr. Swayze shot the pilot in January, and A&E was only a day away from announcing the decision to go ahead with the series when he called in March to deliver the news that he was gravely ill.

“It’s amazing, it’s inspiring, and it’s almost unprecedented,” said Zack Van Amburg, the co-president of Sony’s television studio. The precedent he said the studio and network had clung to as a slim hope was the recovery of Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, who had surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004.

That's great news! I wish him all the best and am interested to check out his new show (I mean, of course I would be, the words "FBI Agent" are involved. ) To read the full article head on over here.
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Comment by Cheryl J

June 9th 2008 14:55
Fabulous news. I hope he does really well with the series and I really hope he beats this cancer. It's great to see someone with such strength!

Comment by Meggie

June 9th 2008 16:44
Absolutely! Thanks for stopping by Cheryl!

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