diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py
index ea1675cf6f..60c0a4f5db 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     compat_str,
     compat_urllib_parse,
     ExtractorError,
-    int_or_none,
+    float_or_none,
     unified_strdate,
 )
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class ComedyCentralShowsIE(InfoExtractor):
             thumbnail = itemEl.find('.//{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}thumbnail').attrib.get('url')
 
             content = itemEl.find('.//{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}content')
-            duration = int_or_none(content.attrib.get('duration'))
+            duration = float_or_none(content.attrib.get('duration'))
             mediagen_url = content.attrib['url']
             guid = itemEl.find('.//guid').text.rpartition(':')[-1]
 
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 29c9b1a4cb..b5326c0cba 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1181,6 +1181,10 @@ def int_or_none(v, scale=1):
     return v if v is None else (int(v) // scale)
 
 
+def float_or_none(v, scale=1):
+    return v if v is None else (float(v) / scale)
+
+
 def parse_duration(s):
     if s is None:
         return None