The period romance/fantasy series earned strong reviews for Prime Video.
Emily Bader in ‘My Lady Jane.’Jonathan Prime/Prime Video
Like the real Jane Grey, the reign of My Lady Jane turned out to be a short one.
Amazon’s Prime Video has canceled the period drama, which combined romance and alternate-world fantasy. The cancellation comes about seven weeks after Prime Video released all eight episodes of the show’s first (and now only) season.
My Lady Jane, based on a novel by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows, is set in a 16th century England where humans coexist with shape-shifters who can take the form of either people or animals. Jane Grey (Emily Bader) is an ordinary human, known as a Verity, who becomes sympathetic to the oppressed shape-shifters, known as Ethians — which will become a problem for the ruling class as Jane rises to power.
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Edward Bluemel, Rob Brydon, Dominic Cooper, Anna Chancellor, Jordan Peters, Kate O’Flynn, Henry Ashton, Jim Broadbent and Ollie Chris (who narrates) star alongside Bader.
My Lady Jane received mostly favorable reviews from critics; The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han wrote that while the series is never “quite as edgy or uproarious as My Lady Jane seems to presume it is, the eight-hour season still serves up plenty of amusement.” The show didn’t catch on in a big way with viewers, however; Prime Video doesn’t share detailed ratings data for its programming, but My Lady Jane didn’t break into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming charts in the month after its release.
Gemma Burgess created the series and was co-showrunner with Meredith Glynn. They executive produced with director Jamie Babbit, Sarah Bradshaw and Laurie MacDonald. Amazon MGM Studios produced the series.
Deadline first reported the cancellation.
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