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Being Bridget Jones

Being Bridget Jones

  • TV documentary
  • BBC Two
  • 2020
  • 1 episode

Documentary about Helen Fielding's comic literary creation, Bridget Jones. Also features Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Nellie Fielding, Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant and more.

Press clippings

Lily Allen comments on Bridget Jones musical

Lily Allen has commented on what she hopes will happen to the songs that she has written for a Bridget Jones musical.

Tanyel Gumushan, What's On Stage, 5th February 2024

Reviews: Mrs. Brown, Motherland, Being Bridget Jones

Review of three Christmas specials.

Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 26th December 2020

Reviews: Being Bridget Jones, Ghosts, Cinderella

Reviews of the Christmas special of Ghosts; one-off Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas; and documentary Being Bridget Jones.

Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 26th December 2020

Being Bridget Jones review

25 years? I think that deserves a toast, don't you?

James Jackson, The Times, 23rd December 2020

Helen Fielding on 25 years of Bridget Jones

Fielding talks to Marcus Field about Bridget Jones's unlikely Yorkshire origins, how the films hold up post #MeToo, and whether Mark Darcy really was based on Keir Starmer.

Marcus Field, Radio Times, 22nd December 2020

Being Bridget Jones, BBC2, review

Fun, relatable and breezy - just like Helen Fielding's books.

Ed Power, i Newspaper, 22nd December 2020

Bridget Jones documentary coming to BBC Two

BBC Two will broadcast Being Bridget, a documentary celebrating 25 years of Helen Fielding's character.

British Comedy Guide, 24th November 2020

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