The CBC is reporting that Newfoundland-based comedian and Canadian TV personality Mary Walsh is creating a pilot for a new half-hour comedy titled Rise Up. The show will feature Walsh as aging punk rocker Siouxie Power, who moves her family from small-town Newfoundland to an upscale Toronto neighborhood after winning the lottery. The character of her former husband (and presumably bandmate) has the stage name of Spook Sparks.

Walsh, a veteran of the This Hour has 22 Minutes program, is the lead creator of the show along with Kevin White, who wrote for Corner Gas, and Sara Snow, who wrote for DeGrassi. The series is being produced by Christina Jennings of Shaftesbury Films. A pilot has been approved by Canwest but it's unknown if or when the show will air.