Patrick Swayze
"I got a lot of flack," Lisa Niemi Swayze said of remarrying after the actor died from pancreatic cancer.
“I’m doing my very best to make sure we honour it," the actor said of the planned follow-up to the 1987 classic.
Whoopi's performance as Oda Mae Brown went on to earn the star her first Academy Award.
Studio Lionsgate described the new film as “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood”.
I Am Patrick Swayze will air in the US on what would have been the actor's 67th birthday.
The new film comes to TV on Sunday.
The star of 'Dirty Dancing' died in 2009.