On Saturday November 18 2017, British cameraman Mark Milsome called home from Accra in Ghana. He had been out there for weeks filming Hugo Blick’s BBC/Netflix drama series Black Earth Rising, starring Michaela Coel and John Goodman. Milsome usually phoned his wife Andra and daughter Alice every evening, at the 11-year-old’s bedtime, but this was the last … Continue reading ‘No one should die for a shot’: the tragic death of a BBC cameraman In 2017, Mark Milsome was killed while filming a stunt for the Michaela Coel drama Black Earth Rising. How did things go so badly wrong?