Who says we don’t “get” the Interwebs and all their tubes?

CBC Television has hired one of the Internet’s most popular online celebrities to host its forthcoming late-night program.

Vancouver actor Lara Doucette, known to thousands of Internet fans as “Lala” from the top-rated video podcast Tiki Bar TV will host CBC Television’s Exposure, which begins airing this summer.

In an interview with InsideCBC.com, Doucette said getting the call from the Mother Corp was a surprise. “I would never think of phoning the CBC about a job. I didn’t know they’d be interested. They called me and I met up with him, and he said ‘Do you want to come on the air and do something?’”

Doucette has been an actor on local Vancouver stages and appears in her friends’ independent films. When asked her age, she confesses with a laugh “Well, my MySpace page says I’m 27…”

Tiki Bar TV is one of the Internet’s earliest and most popular video podcast. Produced in Vancouver by people employed professionally in the film industry, it has been in the top of the video podcast charts for more than a year.

This will be Doucette’s first gig with a broadcaster.

Exposure launches its full web site in one week; it goes to air July 29. It airs Sundays at 11pm.

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