diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
index 003152c4e6..ea0969d4d2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
"""
# Fix up some stupid HTML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1553
- object_str = re.sub(r'(',
+ object_str = re.sub(r'(',
lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
# Fix up some stupid XML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1608
object_str = object_str.replace('<--', '