BBCA: Playlist support for a series

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I am trying to download Dr Who from BBCA.

I can get single episodes.
I cannot get the whole season.

This is a request for playlist support from the series page.

Attempting to fetch the season:

keybounceMBP:BBCA michael$ ./yt-dl -v --get-filename -a dl-list 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-k', '-o', '%(series)s/s%(season_number)02d-e%(episode_number)02d-%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', '\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>340][height<=431]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbest[height>340][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>=280][height<=360]/\nbest[height<=576]/\nworst', '--ap-mso', 'Dish', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,enUS,en-us', '--sub-format', 'ass/srt/best', '--convert-subs', 'ass', '--embed-subs', '--recode-video', 'mkv', '--mark-watched', '--download-archive', 'downloaded-videos.txt']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-o', '%(series)s/s%(season_number)02d-e%(episode_number)02d-%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-v', '--get-filename', '-a', 'dl-list']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who', 'http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who/full-episodes/season-10/episode-02-smile']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.05
[debug] Python version 3.6.1 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2795, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who

In comparison, fetching just single episodes - http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who/full-episodes/season-10/episode-02-smile - works fine.