‘My Lady Jane’ Canceled at Amazon After One Season

Like the actual Jane Gray, the reign of My Girl Jane turned out to be a brief one.

Amazon’s Prime Video has canceled the interval drama, which mixed romance and alternate-world fantasy. The cancellation comes about seven weeks after Prime Video launched all eight episodes of the present’s first (and now solely) season.

My Girl Jane, based mostly on a novel by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows, is about in a sixteenth century England the place people coexist with shape-shifters who can take the type of both folks or animals. Jane Gray (Emily Bader) is an unusual human, often known as a Verity, who turns into sympathetic to the oppressed shape-shifters, often known as Ethians — which is able to change into an issue for the ruling class as Jane rises to energy.

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 Girl Jane obtained principally favorable opinions from critics; The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han wrote that whereas the sequence is rarely “fairly as edgy or uproarious as My Girl Jane appears to presume it’s, the eight-hour season nonetheless serves up loads of amusement.” The present didn’t catch on in an enormous method with viewers, nonetheless; Prime Video doesn’t share detailed scores knowledge for its programming, however My Girl Jane didn’t break into Nielsen’s high 10 streaming charts within the month after its launch.

Gemma Burgess created the sequence and was co-showrunner with Meredith Glynn. They government produced with director Jamie Babbit, Sarah Bradshaw and Laurie MacDonald. Amazon MGM Studios produced the sequence.

Deadline first reported the cancellation.