Armchair Astronauts Media is a boutique unscripted production company founded by John Varela and Marisa Weinstein, seasoned executives with a track record of creating bold, premium formats for networks and streamers.

Together, John and Marisa spent nearly a decade at Paramount, creating, developing and piloting original series across Paramount+, MTV and VH1. Their experience spans large-scale competition, dating and social experiments, docu-series, studio programming, crime and procedural formats.

In addition to developing original concepts, Armchair Astronauts Media offers development consulting for on-camera talent, creators, brands and production companies. Acting as content architects, the company helps partners crack formats and shape raw ideas into network-ready pitches built to scale - bringing ambitious ideas down to earth and launching them into orbit.