diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/telecinco.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/telecinco.py
index ae94f055ca..c0ad286c52 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/telecinco.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/telecinco.py
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from .mitele import MiTeleIE
+import json
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import (
+    compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
+    compat_urlparse,
+)
+from ..utils import (
+    get_element_by_attribute,
+    parse_duration,
+    strip_jsonp,
+)
 
 
-class TelecincoIE(MiTeleIE):
+class TelecincoIE(InfoExtractor):
     IE_NAME = 'telecinco.es'
     _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.telecinco\.es/(?:[^/]+/)+(?P<id>.+?)\.html'
 
@@ -27,3 +39,41 @@ class TelecincoIE(MiTeleIE):
         'url': 'http://www.telecinco.es/espanasinirmaslejos/Espana-gran-destino-turistico_2_1240605043.html',
         'only_matching': True,
     }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        episode = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, episode)
+        embed_data_json = self._search_regex(
+            r'(?s)MSV\.embedData\[.*?\]\s*=\s*({.*?});', webpage, 'embed data',
+        ).replace('\'', '"')
+        embed_data = json.loads(embed_data_json)
+
+        domain = embed_data['mediaUrl']
+        if not domain.startswith('http'):
+            # only happens in telecinco.es videos
+            domain = 'http://' + domain
+        info_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(
+            domain,
+            compat_urllib_parse_unquote(embed_data['flashvars']['host'])
+        )
+        info_el = self._download_xml(info_url, episode).find('./video/info')
+
+        video_link = info_el.find('videoUrl/link').text
+        token_query = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'id': video_link})
+        token_info = self._download_json(
+            embed_data['flashvars']['ov_tk'] + '?' + token_query,
+            episode,
+            transform_source=strip_jsonp
+        )
+        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+            token_info['tokenizedUrl'], episode, ext='mp4')
+
+        return {
+            'id': embed_data['videoId'],
+            'display_id': episode,
+            'title': info_el.find('title').text,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'description': get_element_by_attribute('class', 'text', webpage),
+            'thumbnail': info_el.find('thumb').text,
+            'duration': parse_duration(info_el.find('duration').text),
+        }