Abigail Breslin to Star in 'Dirty Dancing' TV Movie at ABC

The Lionsgate TV-Allison Shearmur Productions program will be a re-imaging of the 1987 movie that stars Jennifer Grey as a wide-eyed ingenue named Baby whose world is opened when she falls for Patrick Swayze’s dance instructor at a 1960s summer resort in the Catskill Mountains. Breslin will take over Grey’s part with Jessica Sharzer (American Horror Story, The L Word) writing the adaptation and Wayne Blair (The Sapphires, Septembers of Shiraz) directing.