Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has opted not to renew My Lady Jane for a second season. The news comes seven weeks after all eight episodes of the show's first season were released at once on June 27.

The news isn’t entirely surprising. Creatively, My Lady Jane has done well. Despite hitting its stride with a premise that transcends genres that normally don’t coexist — historical romance, fantasy, adventure and comedy — it’s one of the highest-rated new series of the year. But it hasn’t found a broad enough audience, never cracking Nielsen’s Top 10 weekly streaming charts for original series.

Created by Gemma Burgess and based on the 2016 YA historical fiction novels, My Lady Jane takes an alternative history approach to one of England’s shortest-reigned monarchs, the 16th-century Lady Jane Grey, also known as the Nine Days Queen. Combining palace intrigue with a fantastical take on class, the series is set in a world inhabited by Ethians, humans with the ability to take on animal form, who are banished from society by the ruling class of commoners known as Verity.