Prime Video cancels celebrated new series just weeks after summer premiere

Prime Video pulls the plug on My Lady JaneThe decision was made a few weeks after all episodes premiered simultaneously on the streaming platform.

By deadline, My Lady Jane was officially canceled by Prime Video after one season. The first season of the series, which consisted of eight episodes, was released on June 27. Since its release, the new show has also received much acclaim, achieving an approval rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. The high score helped My Lady Jane one of the best-rated new shows of the year.

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The problem with My Lady Jane is that the series failed to attract enough viewers when it debuted on Prime Video. The series’ debut season failed to crack the top 10 of Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings for original series and came and went without making much of a splash. Despite good reviews, the lack of interest from Prime Video subscribers must have been reason enough for Amazon to lose faith in the series’ future, bringing it to a quick end. My Lady Jane.

The series will not keep its promise to continue the story

At the end of the first season, it was implied that the “story is not over yet.” Of course, there were hopes of continuing with a possible second season, but nothing was said about that. The good news is that the end of the season also provided a natural end point for the story arc surrounding the central couple, Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) and Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), as the pair had a happy ending.

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Series creator Gemma Burgess served as co-showrunner alongside Meredith Glynn. Both were executive producers with director Jamie Babbit, Sarah Bradshaw and Laurie MacDonald. In addition to Bader and Bluemel, the show also starred Anna Chancellor, Rob Brydon, Jordan Peters, Kate O’Flynn, Abbie Hernn, Henry Ashton, Dominic Cooper and Jim Broadbent.

“We can only hope,” Burgess previously said, according to Cinemablend, about whether there would be a second season before news of the cancellation broke. “We feel like Jane’s story isn’t over yet, but we want viewers to see Season 1. If they love it, we’ll see.”

My Lady Jane is based on the young adult historical novel series. It focuses on the brief reign of Lady Jane Grey, also known as the Nine Day Queen. The series imagines an alternate history set in a world inhabited by “Ethians,” people who can take on animal form. Normal humans, known in this world as “Verity,” have a ruling class that has driven the Ethians out of society, who then formed a group called the “Pack.”

The first and only season of My Lady Jane is streaming on Prime Video.

Source: Deadline