diff --git a/modules/tvsubtitles/pages.py b/modules/tvsubtitles/pages.py
index 8b8d79c9..003beadc 100644
--- a/modules/tvsubtitles/pages.py
+++ b/modules/tvsubtitles/pages.py
@@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ class SeasonPage(BasePage):
     """
     def get_subtitle(self):
         filename_line = self.parser.select(self.document.getroot(),'img[alt=filename]',1).getparent().getparent()
-        name = self.parser.select(filename_line,'td')[2].text
+        name = unicode(self.parser.select(filename_line,'td')[2].text)
         id = self.browser.geturl().split('/')[-1].replace('.html','').replace('subtitle-','')
-        url = "http://%s/download-%s.html"%(self.browser.DOMAIN,id)
+        url = unicode('http://%s/download-%s.html'%(self.browser.DOMAIN,id))
         amount_line = self.parser.select(self.document.getroot(),'tr[title~=amount]',1)
         nb_cd = int(self.parser.select(amount_line,'td')[2].text)
-        lang = url.split('-')[-1].split('.html')[0]
+        lang = unicode(url.split('-')[-1].split('.html')[0])
         filenames_line = self.parser.select(self.document.getroot(),'tr[title~=list]',1)
         file_names = self.parser.select(filenames_line,'td')[2].text_content().strip().replace('.srt','.srt\n')
         desc = u"files :\n"
diff --git a/modules/tvsubtitles/test.py b/modules/tvsubtitles/test.py
index 12d742d5..51e3fa35 100644
--- a/modules/tvsubtitles/test.py
+++ b/modules/tvsubtitles/test.py
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ class TvsubtitlesTest(BackendTest):
         subtitles = list(self.backend.iter_subtitles('fr','sopranos'))
         assert (len(subtitles) > 0)
         for subtitle in subtitles:
-            path, qs = urllib.splitquery(subtitle.url)
-            assert path.endswith('.zip')
+            assert subtitle.url.startswith('http')
 
         # get the file of a random sub
         if len(subtitles):