A third Bridget Jones movie is being developed with Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger once again set to play the beloved British singleton. Variety.com said Working Title is working on a sequel to the hits Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which were films based on Helen Fielding's newspaper columns and novels about a fictional spinster. The third movie reportedly could go into production late next year.

A Broadway musical version of the book and film Bridget Jones's Diary is in the works, the head of England's Working Title production company said. The 2001 big-screen romantic comedy was based on Helen Fielding's novelization of her popular British newspaper column about the fictional Jones, an irrepressible singleton in her 30s looking for love in modern-day London. The movie starred Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth and was followed by a 2004 sequel, also based on a Fielding book, called Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The New York Post said Working Title is trying to follow up its recent success in bringing Billy Elliot from the screen to the stage with a musical adaption of Jones.

1995: British writer Helen Fielding begins scribbling a column for a London newspaper about a young single woman looking for love and a successful diet. The character's name is Bridget Jones.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Writer Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling novel "Bridget Jones's Diary" and its sequel, among other works, gave birth on Sunday to her second child, her publicist said on Tuesday.

TICK-TOCK, tick-tock. Bridget Jones is back, this time accompanied by the loud ticking of her biological clock. "Reason do not have children is that am modern career girl who has choice. Must look on bright side, " she announces in her new diary.