EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has opted not to renew My Lady Jane for a second season. The news comes seven weeks after all eight episodes from the show’s first season were binge released with little promotion June 27.
The news is not entirely surprising. Creatively, My Lady Jane has done well. Despite taking a very big swing with a premise that crosses genres that don’t normally co-exist — historical romance, fantasy, adventure, comedy and farce — it has been among the best reviewed new series this year. But it didn’t find a broad enough audience, never landing on Nielsen’s Top 10 weekly streaming rankings for originals.
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Created by Gemma Burgess based on the 2016 YA historical fiction novels, My Lady Jane takes an alt-history approach to one of England’s monarchs with the shortest rule, the 16th century Lady Jane Grey, aka the Nine Days Queen. Mixing palace intrigue with a fantastical take on class, the series is set in a world inhabited by Ethians, humans who can take animal form, who are banished from society by the ruling class of regular humans, known as Verity.
Season 1 ends with a teaser of what is to come and the sharp-tongued narrator declaring that “our story is not over yet.” But it also gives the central couple, Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) and Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), a satisfying happily-ever-after ending to their love story.
Anna Chancellor, Rob Brydon, Jordan Peters, Kate O’Flynn, Abbie Hern, Henry Ashton, Dominic Cooper and Jim Broadbent also star.
Burgess and Meredith Glynn served as co-showrunners and executive producers. Jamie Babbit directed five of the eight episodes and was producing director/executive producer. Sarah Bradshaw and Laurie MacDonald also executive produced.