June 4th, 2009
While A&E isn’t confirming or denying it, Variety is reporting that Patrick Swayze’s TV show The Beast will not be returning for a second season on the cable network.
It was a surprise to many that the show, which ran for 13 episodes on A&E, ever got off the ground, as it began filming right around the time the Dirty Dancing star’s battle with pancreatic cancer became public. Against the odds, Swayze was able to film an entire season of the Chicago-based production. It had been rumored that the show would continue with a new possible lead star, but the report claims that low ratings were ultimately what did the show in.
Swayze is still keeping busy, with his memoir set to be published later this year.
February 27th, 2009
To look at recent pictures of Patrick Swayze, it’s clear the actor is facing an uphill battle. Swayze, 56, recently took a turn for the worse in his battle with pancreatic cancer, checking himself into the hospital last month for pneumonia.
But despite reports to the contrary, Patrick is still bravely fighting his cancer — more than a year after he was first diagnosed, and ended up beating his bout of pneumonia in January.
"While he was on antibiotics, his doctors stopped his chemotherapy treatments," a friend of the Dirty Dancing star tells OK!. "That’s standard protocol. But as soon as the antibotics ran their course, he was back on his cancer treatments."
Now Patrick and his wife, Lisa Niemi, 52, are splitting their time between L.A. and New Mexico before his A&E drama, The Beast, finishes its run in April.
August 6th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Cancer? What cancer? Onlookers tell OK! Patrick Swayze was well enough to party with family and friends at the Rockit Bar & Grill in Chicago on Aug. 3, where he’s in town to shoot his upcoming A&E drama The Beast.
“Patrick looked healthy. He’s put on weight,” a fellow patron reports. “Around 3 a.m., Patrick raised his glass for a toast with a group of friends, and then everyone did a shot.”
Patrick, 56, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March, danced with his wife, Lisa Niemi into the morning and left around 4:30 a.m. Apparently not even cancer can put Patrick in a corner.
July 21st, 2008
An upbeat Patrick Swayze arrived in Chicago on Sunday evening and shared with fans at the airport that how he’s winning his fight with pancreatic cancer.
"I couldn’t believe what a great mood Patrick was in when I met him," Amber Goodhand of TheBootsGirls.com tells OK! "He was so upbeat and friendly!"
Fans were thrilled to see that the actor looked better than he did when he was diagnosed with the disease in March.
"I told him that he looked really good," Amber tells OK!. "With a smile he shot back and told me that not only has he gained 20 pounds, but that ‘he’s a miracle. A f****** miracle!’"
Because he’s doing so well, the 55-year-old revealed that he will not have to fly back to L.A. on the weekends in-between filming The Beast for treatment.
Even though Patrick appears to be on the road to recovery, he is still taking precautions to take care of his health. Unlike last time he was in Chicago in December to film The Beast pilot, the star has a security team looking after him and has requested all his food be organic foods delivered to his hotel from Whole Foods. He also inquired about places where he can go to take his dogs for walks with wife Lisa Niemi.
June 9th, 2008
Patrick Swayze’s co-star in his new A&E drama pilot, The Beast, is speaking out about his experience working with the actor admid his battle with Pancreatic Cancer.
Travis Fimmel tells Extra, "I had a great time working with Patrick on the pilot for The Beast. I’m thrilled that he is doing so well, although I can’t say I’m surprised as Patrick is a real fighter! I can’t wait to get back on the set to get on the series with him."
Swayze, who was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer earlier this year, has been given the ‘ok’ to begin working again. The A&E network told Extra that the actor "has responded well to treatment and his doctors have given him the go-ahead to resume working."
June 9th, 2008
It’s good news for any actor when his new series gets picked up for an entire season, but when that actor is Patrick Swayze, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, it’s something else entirely.
According to a statement released over the weekend, A&E has decided to pick up Patrick’s FBI drama The Beast for a full 13-episode season, and more importantly, that the actor had been cleared to return to work on the show he’d begun shooting only weeks before going public with his cancer bombshell.
Though Patrick made no mention of his physical condition, he did release a statement about how excited he is to play the part of a rogue FBI agent in the show that is set to hit the small screen in early 2009.
"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multilayered, unpredictable and downright entertaining as well as a project this current and cutting-edged," explained the 55-year-old, who has spent the last several months receiving treatment at Stanford University Medical Center. "I can’t wait to get to work on this."
