'The Huckabee Show' Headed to Syndication in Six-Week Test Run

A failed presidential contender is getting a syndicated Fox talk show, and the person's name is not Sarah Palin.

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas whose 2008 bid for the Republican presidential nomination came up short, will host a six-week preview of 'The Huckabee Show' on Fox in seven markets, according to TV News Check. The preview will kick off on Jul. 26.
The format will be similar to Huckabee's weekly Fox News Channel show, which features topical discussion and celeb interviews in front of a live audience. Huckabee, himself a musician, usually closes each Fox News Channel show with a jam with his band, the Little Rockers.

The new daily hour-long show, produced by Fox's Twentieth TV, will air in New York, Dallas/Fort Worth, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit Tampa and Minneapolis/St. Paul in the midday during the trial.

Huckabee's politics certainly lean toward the right but he's not as confrontational or heated as other well known Fox news personalities like Sean Hannity.

Prior to entering politics, Huckabee was a pastor and denominational leader. He also lost 110 pounds after he was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in 2003.

His name has been bandied about as a 2012 Republican presidential candidate.