Pitmaster Ed Mitchell shows up in a "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" rerun tonight at 9:30pm on the Food Network, and according to our friends over at mouthful, he's on NBC's "Today" show tomorrow morning, too.

It's Ed Mitchell's world, we just live in it.

Leverage (9pm, TNT) - Nate's team takes on a thieving felon by commandeering the floor of a hospital and staging a deadly virus outbreak.

Throwdown with Bobby Flay (9:30pm, Food) - In case you missed it back in May, a repeat of the episode featuring Bobby's trip to Raleigh to challenge local pitmaster Ed Mitchell of The Pit restaurant to a barbecued rib cookoff. The cookoff was filmed outside of Haywood Hall in downtown Raleigh. Go Ed!

Holidate (10pm, Soap) - Maybe all you need to do to find Mr. Right is fish in a different pond? This new 10-episode dating show tests that premise by having two successful but unlucky-at-love women switch towns in hopes of changing their luck at finding a man. While spending time in their new towns, the women will date men specifically chosen for them. A different pair of women will be featured each week. Tonight, an LA model switches places with an NYC entrepreneur.  

Merlin (8pm, NBC) - Merlin is saved from a magical winged creature by young Lancelot (Santiago Cabrera), and then tries to help Lancelot become a knight in King Arthur's court.

Army Wives (10pm, Lifetime) - Chase comes home early but has difficulty readjusting, and Joan decideds to christen her baby before she's deployed.

Iron Chef America (10pm, Food) - A showdown between New York Chef Sue Torres and Iron Chef Bobby Flay. Judges are Isaac Mizrahi, Mark Bittman, and Isabel Gonzalez.

Ed Mitchell, noted barbecue pitmaster and owner of The Pit (www.thepit-raleigh.com) in Raleigh, is the featured opponent tonight at 8:30pm on the Food Network's Throwdown! with Bobby Flay. Mitchell and Flay will battle it out for bragging rights in the barbecued ribs category.

If you miss tonight's airing, you can catch the repeat on May 28 at 3:30am (you may want to Tivo that one if you're not a night owl) and again on June 6 at 4:30pm.

Tune in to the Food Network tonight at 8:30 for the BBQ "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" featuring the chef taking on N.C.'s own pit master Ed Mitchell.

Mitchell, in case you didn't know, works his magic at Raleigh's The Pit restaurant. Flay, in case you didn't know, works his magic at six restaurants and on several Food Network shows.

You can read Andrea Weigl's account of the visit as it was filmed here. There's a photo gallery too.