yt-dlp: Can't download House M.D.'s Youtube channel

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I was downloading clips of famous shows on Youtube when I noticed a strange bug. If I run e.g. yt-dlp https://youtube.com/@TheOffice/videos all the videos are downloaded nicely. If I run yt-dlp https://youtube.com/@HouseM.D./videos, yt-dlp seems to think that the channel has 0 videos and thus exits without downloading anything. Maybe it has something to do with the dots in the channel tag? I did read the link in the fourth checklist step, but I didn’t find anything related to this.

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  • Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
  • If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
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[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://www.youtube.com/@HouseM.D./videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2023.07.06 [b532a3481] (pip)
[debug] Python 3.8.10 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.4.0-156-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29 (OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020, glibc 2.31)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.7, ffprobe 4.2.7
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.14.1, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2020.04.05.1, mutagen-1.45.1, secretstorage-2.3.1, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1855 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Available version: stable@2023.07.06, Current version: stable@2023.07.06
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2023.07.06)
[youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/@HouseM.D./videos
[youtube:tab] @HouseM.D./videos: Downloading webpage
[debug] [youtube:tab] Selected tab: 'videos' (videos), Requested tab: 'videos'
[download] Downloading playlist: House M.D. - Videos
[youtube:tab] UCXAi-pPpdtc9uxU39E-PBEQ page 1: Downloading API JSON
[youtube:tab] Playlist House M.D. - Videos: Downloading 0 items
[download] Finished downloading playlist: House M.D. - Videos

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