
Simon Buckmaster
Art
Biography
Simon Buckmaster became Chief Creative Officer of Nebula, a video streaming service, in 2018.
Known For

Jet Lag: The Game is a travel competition show where instead of traveling to the competitions, travel is the competition. Each season brings a new game where the world is the board, with players competing against each other, sleep deprivation, flight delays, broken-down cars, and the bizarre challenges they quickly regret having created.
Jet Lag: The Game

On Abolish Everything!, comedian-abolitionists roast a pet peeve they want banned from society, while a panel of improvisers dubbed “The Political Establishment” argue on behalf of the status quo. The audience chooses their champion each episode, each of whom will come back to compete in the season finale.
Abolish Everything!

Half as Interesting put the 34 weirdest laws in America on a map and gave Sam 72 hours and $5,000 to break eight of them. But the HAI writers got $3,000 and a live tracker on Sam—and if they tag him, he loses a point. None of the rules require anyone to go to sleep at any point. What could possibly go wrong?
Half as Interesting’s Crime Spree

Every year, a 20-page Scavenger Hunt list plunges the University of Chicago into fun, sleepless chaos. This series will bring the audience into the action, following three top teams as they race to complete the list, and answering the question of what happens when the best and brightest turn their focus towards the silliest things you’ve ever seen.
Scav

Two strangers wake up in a mysterious white room with no way out or memory of their past. The two must unravel their identity while navigating a corporate metaverse that controls virtually every aspect of its employees’ online reality. A story about finding yourself.
IDENTITEAZE

Charl: an adorable googly-eyed coconut turned pop culture sensation who is secretly a genocidal robot from another universe. In 5 days he’s going to murder the entire planet, and the only people who might be able to stop him are a multiverse-hopping law enforcement officer and a failed author obsessed with cartoons. The season finale of the long-running Charl storyline on the Patrick (H) Willems channel.
Night of the Coconut

Land is supposed to be the embodiment of permanence, but what happens when it's not? What is life like when the nation you live in has an expiration date?
The Final Years of Majuro

The story behind the construction and operation of the first-ever airport on Saint Helena Island. St. Helena, a British Overseas Territory located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most isolated islands in the world. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is well below that of the rest of the United Kingdom. The reduction in travel times from days to hours will hopefully create an economic boom on the island.
The World's Most Useful Airport
What started as a simple design choice led to something much more meaningful. When Nebula found itself facing exorbitant fees to license the font it relied on for all of its branding, the company decided to find a new font that would work just as well. Along the way, they met a font designer who had a personal story reflective of the company’s own values, a champion of diversity and inclusion whose work can be found on the device you’re using right now.