Darcy is dead.

Yes, Colin Firth appears in the trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth installment of the Bridget Jones movie series, but only long enough to establish that he’s shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving our heroine a widow with two young children.

Sigh. What’s a romantic like Bridget, played as always by Renee Zellweger, to do? If the trailer is any indication, she’s going to spend 90-odd minutes choosing between baby-faced Leo Woodall as Roxter, age-appropriate Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mr. Walliker, and always-inappropriate former flame Daniel Cleaver, played by series regular Hugh Grant.

The followup to 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby is now a Peacock streaming exclusive. The official description reads, ““Pressured by her Urban Family — including Shazzer (Sally Phillips), Jude (Shirley Henderson) and Tom (James Callis), her work colleague Miranda (Sarah Solemani), her mother (Gemma Jones) and her gynecologist, Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Woodall),” the description continues. “Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Ejiofor).”

The ensemble also includes Jim Broadbent returning as Bridget’s father Colin, and Isla Fisher debuting as Bridget’s neighbor Rebecca. Michael Morris directs from a script penned by Helen Fielding, who wrote the book series the movies are based on, and Dan Mazer and Abi Morgan.

Bridget Jones’s Diary, the first movie in the series, was released in 2001, followed by Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in 2004. The first three movies grossed $760 million worldwide.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy premieres February 13th exclusively on Peacock.

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