The Extreme Gossiper Wendy Williams's show has been picked up for an additional year. This is a really good look for Wendy, especially since her show at launch looked a little "low budget" to say the least.
Debmar-Mercury has renewed The Wendy Williams Show on the Fox stations through the 2011-12 season, the company said today.
Wendy Williams airs on Fox stations in top markets, including on WNYW New York, KTTV Los Angeles, WFLD Chicago, WTXF Philadelphia and KDFW Dallas. The show launched nationally in July after a six-week test on four Fox stations in summer 2008.
"There was no question that we wanted to renew The Wendy Williams Show given what we've seen thus far in both content and ratings," said Frank Cicha, Fox's senior VP of programming, in a statement. "We anticipate even further growth as the show continues to emerge as a key building block, and Wendy as a key personality, of our daytime landscape."
After I saw the premiere of Wendy's show last year I thought she was a fool for leaving her lucrative syndicated radio show behind. The TV show looked a hot mess...cheap set, obviously staged audience, Wendy looking stiff and unrehearsed, Wendy's weave looking like a hot ghetto mess. It was not a good look.
But Wendy has stepped up the game recently. An although the set still looks cheap, Wendy's weave is better and it appears she now has a stylist and a better producer to make the show flow...the awkward pauses and interruptions are less and less. It even appears she has some real audience members now.
Good for Wendy for showing us all how it's done.
