[BBC] Error with null formats?

[sfenwick]

Getting an error downloading from the BBC tonight. Looks like it's having trouble with a null format name msybe.

youtube-dl --verbose https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000d4tk/doctor-who-series-12-2-spyfall-part-2
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--output', u'~/Documents/BBC/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000d4tk/doctor-who-series-12-2-spyfall-part-2']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.14 (CPython) - Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[bbc.co.uk] m000d4tk: Downloading video page
[bbc.co.uk] m000d4tk: Downloading playlist JSON
[bbc.co.uk] m000d4tj: Downloading media selection XML
ERROR: Unable to download XML: '' (caused by BadStatusLine("''",)); 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.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 2572, in http_open
    req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1201, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1121, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 438, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 402, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)

[sfenwick]

Working ok now. Maybe a temporary problem at the beeb.

[PlaceboPRS]

I'm having similar problems, are you in the UK or like me having to use SmartDNS/VPN?