Patrick Swayze, who is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer, is returning to acting according to People.com.  His new TV project The Beast was just given the go ahead by A&E.

“I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting edged,” Swayze, 55, said in a statement from the network.

In the series, the actor has a starring role playing veteran FBI agent Charles Barker, who is assigned to teach his rookie partner (Fimmel) his eccentric undercover crime-solving methods while secretly being investigated by an Internal Affairs team. Production on the show begins this summer and will film on location in Chicago, with a scheduled premiere date of early 2009.

I don’t know of anyone that is not pulling for Swayze.  I have never met the guy but he has always seemed as one of the nicer and more respectable actors in Hollywood.