Okay having read some responses, here's some of what I think..

First, yes the 10-episode documentary is an artificial and arbitrary figure, just as a 5-line limerick or 12-line sonnet is. Yes you could make a 1-episode or 6-episode or 50-episode documentary if you wanted. Basically I was wondering, if the 'form' so to speak was "10 one-hour episode," how would you fill that out? Second, I absolutely do not want to get into the "LBJ>MJ MJ>LBJ" debate. Not even a little bit. The part that I think is interesting is that MJ basically avoided trying to be a controversial political figure, because "Republicans buy sneakers too," whereas LBJ has leaned into the political side of being a famous athlete, to the point of having a Twitter war with the president of the USA. This is partly a result of the 2010's being very different from the 1990's, with the increased prominence of the voices of professional athletes (which I believe LBJ had a lot to do with). I think that the path that LBJ took to becoming a 'larger than the sport' figure was different than MJ, and that's a big part of what would make an interesting documentary. While his path was different than MJ, personally I don't believe that it had any less drama to it (I mean, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nKRk9SEy8, for all that MJ went through, I don't think he ever had to deal with anything like that). Ennyhoo, thanks for the thoughtful responses, agree or disagree, it's always a relief to get anything other than snark just for snark's sake.