''The Michael Vick Project'' is an American

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following

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player Michael Vick, executive produced by James DuBose. The ten-part docu-series premiered on February 2, 2010, on

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, 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.

Critical reception

Hank Stuverer, in a review for ''

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'' which was reprinted in the ''

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'', 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".

References

External links

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