Wendy Williams show renewed for four years

Wendy Williams is on a roll, and has no plans to stop anytime soon: The show was renewed Tuesday for four more seasons, through the 2016-2017 season.

The popular talk show will also air live episodes this summer, rather than go on hiatus.

"'The Wendy Williams Show’ has as much momentum as any show on our air right now, both qualitatively and quantitatively,” said Frank Cicha, senior VP of programming for the Fox Television Stations. “Over the last few years, it’s evolved into the ideal lead-out to our morning news blocks. Like our news, the show delivers a day/date immediacy that serves as a blueprint for where we want to be the rest of the day.”

Fox bestowed the eponymous talk show with its sixth seventh and eighth seasons in response to growing ratings, particularly in the show's key demographic of women between 24 and 54, which as much as doubled in some markets between 2011-2012 and 2012-2013.