Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the fourth "Bridget Jones" film, "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," streaming on Peacock.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the highly anticipated new sequel to the iconic Bridget Jones’ Diary movies, premieres tonight, Thursday, February 13 on Peacock. Tune in to see what shenanigans Bridget Jones, played by Renee Zellweger, is up to. You can watch on Peacock or with DirecTV Stream (free trial).

I wish "Mad About the Boy" took more aggressive fun in plugging Bridget into the fads and tropes of the present day. The movie, by design, has a sentimental middle-aged softness to it. It’s the first "Bridget Jones" movie to be released on a streaming platform (in this case,