Bridget Jones' Renée Zellweger announces new TV show

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14 Jul 2024, 14:41

Renée Zellweger has landed the lead role in Max’s upcoming thriller Jane Smith. 

The Bridget Jones star will play the titular defence attorney whose life is suddenly turned upside down when she is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour the day before the biggest case of her career. 

Based on the bestselling novel 12 Months to Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica, the show will see Jane delve deeper into an increasingly dangerous and deeply personal investigation, all while dealing with her health issues. 

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Zellweger will also executive produce the series alongside Johnson and Carmela Casinelli from Big Picture Co. and author Patterson. Ozark’s Miki Johnson is also onboard as writer and showrunner. 

It’s certainly shaping up to be a busy year for Zellweger, who recently got engaged to British TV presenter Ant Anstead. The English television presenter is a car builder, designer and artist and is best known for co-presenting the Channel 4 automotive show For the Love of Cars.

The actress is also currently filming the fourth Bridget Jones movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, announced earlier this year. The film will see the return of Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, who was presumed dead for most of the previous movie. 

However, Colin Firth will seemingly not be returning for the fourth film in the role of the beloved Mark Darcy, leading fans to worry this may mean the film will be adapting Bridget Jones writer Helen Fielding’s plot development, which sees Darcy permanently killed off.

No official synopsis for the film has been released just yet, but it can be assumed that it will be based on the plot of Fielding’s novel of the same name. In this book, Bridget copes with widowhood in her 50s after the death of Mark some years earlier.