Television: A Radio Shock Jock Who’s Ready for TV

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Wendy Williams Bringing Penis Discussion To Morning Television [Shock Jocks]
Published 7/9/2008 by Hamilton Nolan at Gawker
... ! Williams is about to launch a trial run of a morning talk show on Fox, for those who would rather watch a loud, be-wigged radio DJ first thing in the morning than learn some new summer smoothie recipes from Meredith Vieira. Television is a wasteland, let's face it. But at least Wendy is planning to keep things upbeat; the last long discussion her producer had was about "whether you can say penis." ...

Quick Quotes
Published 7/9/2008 by Fresh at [CRUNK + DISORDERLY]
“My bark is worse than my bite . . . I feel as though I’m nice, and that I’m down to earth, and — people like me get taken advantage of. So by being tall and outgoing, people mistake that for being overpowering, overbearing, loud and being a bully. No, no I’m a flower.” - - Wendy Williams talks to the NY Times about her new daytime talk show [Thanks Max]

Wendy Williams Is A Special Pretty Flower
Published 7/9/2008 at Videogum
... , will premiere her new TV show, The Wendy Williams Show, on Monday. You might think the "limited engagement" talk show would be of interest mainly to fans of her radio show and, like, bloggers only, but the New York Times has taken note with a profile of Wendy: ...

Radio DJ Wendy Williams has taken a stab ... [Wendy Williams]
Published 7/9/2008 by Slut Machine at Jezebel
... — an hour-long, live morning talk show — will premiere on Fox. (The live format is key, as Williams shines when putting celebrities on the spot.) The NY Times interviewed Williams about her new show, and the thing that stuck out to us the most was this quote, from a producer from her new show: "We had a long discussion about whether you can say penis." Why can't you say penis on the air? We've totally heard Oprah and Dr. Oz say penis a bunch of times. (Dr. Oz has even said "smegma.") [ ...

A Promising Start for a D.J.-Turned-Chat-Show-Host
Published 7/16/2008 by Brian Stelter at TV Decoder
... of the available television viewers in the demographic, 67 percent higher than “Montel” in May. Among women 25 to 54, “Wendy” netted a 1.9 rating and a 13 share, triple the “Montel” ratings.“Wendy” did not perform quite as well in Los Angeles or Dallas, where it was also being tested, but it still showed gains compared with “Montel.” Ms. Williams “says she hopes to extract the essence of her radio show, which has an audience of 12 million, and somehow translate it to television,” Monica Drake reported in Sunday’s New York Times . “If it’s a success, the show will return for a ...

Wendy Williams Passes the Talk-Show Test
Published 8/18/2008 by By Brian Stelter at TV Decoder
“The Wendy Williams Show,” a talk show that is finishing a test run on five Fox stations this week, has received a full series order, the Fox Television Stations group said on Monday. The program, starring the popular New York radio D.J. Wendy Williams, is the first syndicated talk format to come from the production company Debmar-Mercury. In The New York Times last month, Monica Drake wrote : “In the uneven terrain of unscripted daytime television, populated by stern judges and sisterly confabs, this shock jock of urban radio fills no obvious niche. The show’s creators ...