Verizon MSO: Unable to extract SAML Login URL

[jdrukman]

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$ youtube-dl --verbose --ap-mso Verizon --ap-username xxx --ap-password 'xxx' http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who/full-episodes/season-11/episode-08-the-witchfinders
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'--ap-mso', u'Verizon', u'--ap-username', u'PRIVATE', u'--ap-password', u'PRIVATE', u'http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who/full-episodes/season-11/episode-08-the-witchfinders']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.23
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-18.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1, ffprobe 4.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[AMCNetworks] episode-08-the-witchfinders: Downloading webpage
[AMCNetworks] episode-08-the-witchfinders: Downloading JSON metadata
[AMCNetworks] vLg5R2XCulSw: Downloading Provider Redirect Page
[AMCNetworks] vLg5R2XCulSw: Downloading SAML Login Page
ERROR: Unable to extract SAML Login URL; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.