Is skirt off sick?” This one question, asked by Daniel Cleaver of the titular character in Bridget Jones’ Diary, kick-started a doomed office romance that by today’s enlightened standards would, at best,

I’ll take Renée Zellweger’s nose scrunch wherever I can get it, even in Peacock’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

She may never be on time or look quite as she would like to, but Bridget is a reliable box-office draw—even a quarter of a century after her first appearance. “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (2001) grossed almost $600m in today’s money;