#My Lady Jane: Prime Video Series Showrunner on Adapting the Novel and Possibility of Season Two

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My Lady Jane arrived on Prime Video last week, and some viewers are wondering if a second season is on the way.

The alternate history series, which stars Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel, Jordan Peters, Dominic Cooper, Rob Brydon, Will Keen, Anna Chancellor, Jim Broadbent, Kate O’Flynn, Isabella Brownso, Henry Ashton, Abbie Hern, Joe Klocek, Máiréad Tyers, and Brandon Grace, takes a look at what might have happened to British Monarch Jane Grey (Bader) if she had not been beheaded. Changes to other historical figures are also made.

The story is based on the trilogy of young adult novels by Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, and Cynthia Hand.

Series showrunner Gemma Burgess spoke about the challenges of adapting the novels for the new Prime Video series, and how she wanted to make them sex-positive and a safe space for viewers. This means My Lady Jane left out some of history’s more triggering parts. Burgess said the following, per EW:

“We have no sexual violence, nothing like that. It’s about joy for us, it’s about communication, connection, and fun. Personally, I get very upset when I watch something that seems to be having a lot of sexual violence or sexual threats against women as entertainment. That rules out a lot of fantasies. But I love fantasy shows. So, this is an optimistic, safe fantasy show.”

As for a second season, the door has been left open, and Burgess has ideas about what it could look like.

“[A second season is] always a possibility. We wanted to really lean into the visual storytelling of taking a woman up to the point of being beheaded. It seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up. I used to be an author. When you’re an author, you can do an awful lot of first person present tense thinking, but when you are on television, you have to have conflict and action and something to look at to lead to the drama. …

If we are fortunate enough to get a season 2, then we are going to be exploring all of them growing up and moving on and figuring out how to survive in the world where Jane is free, but the kingdom is not. Because Mary’s still on the throne. There’s a lot more work to do before things are right.”

What do you think? Have you checked out My Lady Jane? Are you hoping the show will be renewed for a second season or is one season enough for this Prime video show?