Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall join returning cast including Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson in the fourth entry of the rom-com series based on Helen Fielding’s popular novels.

Mad About the Boy is set to premiere on Peacock. With the long-awaited fourth entry in the misadventures of its eponymous heroine, fans and critics alike have to ask: Is there any way to recapture the rom-com perfection that was 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary?

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a front-to-back delight. A romcom about grief and starting over with heavy boots but a light heart, full of great gags and Renée Zellweger hitting Shirley MacLaine-in-The-Apartment levels of excellence pic.twitter.com/Zvia0qUFks

Renée Zellweger and newcomers Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor talk age gaps, their favorite moments in the franchise and missing Colin Firth: "It really snuck up on me in a heavy way."

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,

Just in time for Valentines Day, Bridget Jones comes to the rescue in a season where the holiday of love has so far been dedicated to horror (Heart Eyes) and action (Love Hurts), the latter a violent Jackie Chan ripoff is the one Universal chose to release in theatres in the U.