What to stream this week

Deliver on the granny pants and awkward moments, as a result of beloved singleton Bridget Jones is again on our screens on Thursday.

However that is not all of the week has in retailer.

It is the finale of Beast Video games, there is a new album by Rizzle Kicks, Civilization VII is being launched, and the 90s/00s theme continues with Clueless the Musical.

Learn on for this week’s greatest releases…

When Beast Video games launched, the Amazon collection promised to be the most important stay recreation present on the earth.

The fact competitors present sees 1,000 individuals compete in a collection of elimination challenges for a $5m (£4.02m) money prize.

The person behind it’s, after all, MrBeast himself – the preferred YouTuber on the earth, whose actual identify is Jimmy Donaldson.

The finale is that this Thursday. However the collection has not been with out controversy. It is drawn comparisons with Squid Sport, for the frilly duties that contestants are set.

In September, Amazon and MrBeast have been named in a US lawsuit which made quite a lot of claims about how members have been handled on set.

Amazon and MrBeast didn’t reply to a request for touch upon this. MrBeast previously claimed that the allegations have been “blown out of proportion”.

The part beneath accommodates spoilers about Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy

After nearly a decade away, hapless heroine Bridget Jones is back.

Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy hits cinemas this Thursday, proper in time for Valentine’s Day (I’ve booked tickets… tragically).

Following the dying of Mr Darcy, Bridget (performed by Renée Zellweger) is now a widow, attempting to deliver up two children. She can be re-entering the world of relationship, by having a fling with a a lot youthful man – performed by Leo Woodall, of One Day fame.

My colleague Colin Paterson requested Renée how she started making ready to play Bridget once more.

“I begin attempting to talk like [Bridget] earlier than I begin rehearsing,” the American actress mentioned.

“So I sound a bit like I’ve pretences, placing on airs for some time. It is abysmal for some time,” she laughed.

“I discover that arduous to imagine,” Leo jumped in. However Renée insisted, “it is true.”

Tune in to BBC Breakfast on Monday for Colin’s full interview, forward of the movie’s launch.

If seeing Bridget Jones is not your very best approach of celebrating Valentine’s Day, then why not spend it listening to Rizzle Kicks’ new album, Competitors Is For Losers.

It is out on Friday, and is about to see the pop/hip-hop duo – made up of Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sulé – sharing life classes on love, sobriety and masculinity.

It’s being seen as a comeback, after the pair determined to bow out of the music scene for nearly a decade for psychological well being causes.

And Jordan and Harley advised me it is their “finest album but”.

“It is undoubtedly tougher to advertise than it was once however we’re assured of its vitality in case you do pay attention,” they mentioned.

“Everybody most likely says that. Pleasure feels rebellious nowadays. So we stepped again into our personal lane.”

The album options collaborations with artists together with Maverick Sabre, DJ Premier, Mick Jenkins and newcomer Lex Amor.

Cher Horowitz was the lovably spoilt, fashion-obsessed Beverly Hills highschool woman we took to our hearts within the 1995 teen movie Clueless.

The movie, primarily based on Jane Austen’s Emma, was a field workplace hit and spawned a TV spin-off.

Now, Clueless is coming again – as a brand new West Finish musical. It stars Emma Flynn as Cher and Keelan McAuley as Josh, and options songs by All of a sudden I See singer KT Tunstall.

I am right here for the style, however there’s a lot extra to Clueless. Cher’s knowledge contains self-acceptance, and recognising the significance of feminine pals.

And let’s not overlook her iconic put-down to undesirable male consideration that I am going to admit to rolling out endlessly in my teenagers: “Ugh, as if!”

The present opens at London’s Trafalgar Theatre on Friday.

By Tom Gerken, Expertise reporter

It has been a very long time since Civilization VI hit the cabinets in 2016. Now, the most recent within the cult technique collection – which first appeared in 1991 – is lastly being launched.

Civilization VII brings with all of it kinds of recent options to maintain avid gamers completely happy. I used to be fortunate sufficient to be one of many individuals to get my fingers on it forward of time, and I can say with confidence it is a game-changer.

As I wrote in my preview in August final 12 months, a bundle of brand name new options are embedded within the recreation, centred round a brand new hook – you now play by three eras, altering world nations as you go, and constructing on high of what got here earlier than.

The listing of recent options is so broad it will be unattainable to listing them right here, however once I advised the builders that it appeared like they’d simply gone by Reddit and brought each suggestion, they joked that wasn’t far off what actually occurred.

The hotly-anticipated new recreation comes out Tuesday on PC.

• Richard II starring Jonathan Bailey opens at Bridge Theatre on Monday
• Armie Hammer will likely be on Louis Theroux’s podcast on Tuesday
• Marvel’s Captain America: Courageous New World is launched in cinemas on Friday
• When Maggie Met Larry will likely be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday