Published On: 12.29.20 | 

By: Alabama News Center Staff

Best of Alabama NewsCenter 2020: Entertainment

Entertainment stories were welcomed in 2020. (file)

Go ahead and roll your eyes. You’re thinking “best of” and “2020” do not belong in the same headline. Despite a global pandemic, record hurricanes, economic collapse, fires, floods, civil unrest and even murder hornets, good things still happened in spite of – or even in response to – the calamities. So, as 2020 draws to an end, let’s look back on the “Good News from Home” stories readers clicked on the most on Alabama NewsCenter. The editor’s choices are stories that didn’t get the most clicks but we feel are worth noticing.

It’s a year that saw the emergence of Brenda Gantt and Fannie Flagg’s return to Whistle Stop. It was also a year when COVID-19 hammered the entertainment industry and inspired a principal to deliver an MC Hammer impersonation. It was a year when the pains of Black Lives Matter inspired a beautiful dance. A movie filmed in Alabama became a Netflix success and an HGTV show being filmed in Wetumpka is creating great expectations.

Alabama grandma Brenda Gantt wants to help you fix supper

Brenda Gantt, a 73-year-old grandmother from Andalusia, thought other people might like to see how she made biscuits. Her video has been viewed more than a million times, kicking off a growing series of Facebook cooking tutorials. (Courtesy of Brenda Gantt)

 

Alabama principal’s viral music video Hammers home COVID-19 guidelines

 

Alabama town is ready for its HGTV ‘Home Town Takeover’ spotlight

Wetumpka: Alabama town experiencing HGTV “Home Town Takeover” from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

 

Alabama’s Fannie Flagg returns to Whistle Stop in new novel

Fannie Flagg says her latest novel may be her last novel. (Andrew Southam)

 

Alabama ‘American Idol’ Ruben Studdard weighs in on COVID-19 emergency

Alabama ‘American Idol’ Ruben Studdard weighs in on COVID-19’s damage to entertainment industry from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

 

Editor’s choice 1: Alabama dancer’s Black Lives Matter video goes viral

 

Editor’s choice2: ‘The Devil All the Time,’ filmed across Alabama, creeps out some reviewers

Tom Holland in a scene from “The Devil All the Time” on Netflix. (Netflix)