The Michael Vick Project

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The Michael Vick Project
Created by James DuBose
Presented byDuBose Entertainment
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Production locationsAtlanta, GA
Running time22 minutes
Original release
Network BET
ReleaseFebruary 2 (2010-02-02) 
April 6, 2010 (2010-04-06)

The Michael Vick Project is an American docu-series following football player Michael Vick, executive produced by James DuBose. [1] The ten-part docu-series premiered on February 2, 2010, on BET, and aired its last episode on April 6, 2010. It chronicled the widely publicized and criticized plummet of the NFL's one-time highest paid player. [2]

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Critical reception

Hank Stuverer, in a review for The Washington Post which was reprinted in the Boston Globe , gave the series a mixed reception. He described it as "far from a defensive vanity project" but thought that it needed "an objective outsider who will ask tougher questions". [3]

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References

  1. "DuBose Entertainment Chronicles the Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of NFL Star Michael Vick in a New Original Docu-Series To Premiere on BET". PR Newswire. October 9, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-12.
  2. "Coming Soon". BET . Archived from the original on 2009-10-14.
  3. Hank Stuverer (February 9, 2010). "Vick's show raises more questions". Boston Globe. pp. G13. Retrieved May 7, 2022.