Bushnell collaborated with school friend, Gordon Fraser, to create the newspaper comic strip, The Funny Farm, later retitled Farmageddon.

[5] As well as producing animation for commercials Qurios has a string of TV credits, including Hyperdrive, Spooks, Tracy Beaker Returns, and The Dumping Ground.

[6] Qurios later merged with Dene Films, a Newcastle upon Tyne based live action production company where Bushnell was Animation Director until 2013.

[7][8] Bushnell was Co-Producer (with Chris Chapman) of two animated episodes of the Doctor Who story The Ice Warriors, which was released on DVD in August 2013.

[16] Bushnell received a Northern Promise Award and Sorrowline was quickly picked up for publication by Andersen Press in the United Kingdom, Heyne in Germany and by Pensamento-Cultrix in Brazil.

[20] Bushnell wrote and directed the live-action comedy short DCSS, a film made as part of Tees Valley Screen's Microshorts project,[21] He has also written a Blake's 7 audio book for Big Finish Productions, released in November 2020,[22][23] and several Doctor Who audiobooks.

In December 2015 Bushnell, along with Michael Chaplin (writer) and Ian McMillan (poet), was appointed to the Board of trustees of New Writing North.