Two years after Lifetime debuted a bombshell documentary about what happened to beloved talk show host Wendy Williams, Peacock has greenlit a new three-part documentary featuring 20 former staffers who worked on “The Wendy Williams Show.”
The streamer announced on August 24, 2026, that “Clap If You Care: The Wendy Williams Show,” will be released in 2027, with her former colleagues opening up about their “behind-the-scenes experiences” with the pop culture icon.
New Wendy Williams Documentary Aims to Reveal ‘Complicated Truths’ About the End of Her Show
GettyAccording to a press release, the documentary will focus on “the outrageous fun, cultural impact and meteoric rise” of “The Wendy Williams Show,” which aired for 14 seasons. The project will be overseen by Suzanne Bass, who was executive producer on 13 of the show’s 14 seasons.
The release said “Clap If You Care” won’t just be about Williams’ rise from radio host to TV legend, though. The synopsis says, “While praising Williams’ TV reign, the documentary also sheds light on the complicated truths about the cost of fame and answers long-lingering questions surrounding the infamous exit from her own show.”
The documentary’s synopsis says it will also follow Williams’ path to success, reminding viewers how she “redefined the daytime talk genre with her outrageous on-screen fun on the long-running, Daytime Emmy-nominated talk show.”
Wendy Williams Recently Pleaded Again to Be Freed From Her Conservatorship
“The Wendy Williams Show” aired its last episode in June 2022, but without its eponymous host, who had been placed under a legal conservatorship the month prior, and was living in an undisclosed facility.
On August 22, Williams was seen in public for the first time in five months as she walked in New York City with a male companion, who was helping to carry her shopping bags and then led her inside a building.
When the paparazzi caught up with her, asking what she wanted her fans to know. Williams responded, “I want out!”
Williams’ physical and mental health had repeatedly come into question during her final seasons, stepping away from the series three separate times — in March 2018, May 2020, and October 2021 — to deal with her Graves’ disease diagnosis and hyperthyroidism, per People. Williams was also gone for six weeks in early 2019 after fracturing her shoulder. She later admitted she spent her time away focusing on her sobriety, the outlet said.
The 2024 “Where is Wendy Williams” documentary painted a bleak picture of the host’s cognitive abilities after being diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) the previous year. Her sister, Wanda Finnie, and niece Alex Finnie told People at the time that she had improved greatly since the time it was filmed.
Williams’ longtime replacement during her absences from “The Wendy Williams Show,” comedian and former “The View” host Sherri Shepherd, took over with her own eponymous talk show. That daytime series ended its four-season run in the spring of 2026.
