Duke at UNC (8pm, WRAL) - It's the big rematch: Duke at North Carolina. Mentioning it here because you probably won't hear about it anywhere else.

Must Love Cats (8pm, Animal Planet) - John Fulton looks at the origins of the domestic shorthair cat and catches up with some mouse-catching kitties in New York City. Also, a look at the various breeds that compete in CFA cat shows. Two hours of pit bulls follows.

Caroline Rhea & Friends (9pm, Showtime) - A new special from actress-comedian Caroline Rhea, in which she introduces up-and-coming comics Costaki Economopoulos, Ryan Hamilton, Page Hurwitz, and Liam McEneaney.

Saturday Night Live (11:30pm, NBC) - Miley Cyrus (right with Kenan Thompson) hosts, but the really good news is the musical guest is the Strokes.

Austin City Limits (Midnight, UNC-TV) - A repeat featuring Aimee Mann.

Rocker Bret Michaels plugged tonight's show in Raleigh during his appearance on "Good Morning America" this morning, noting that he was heading this way as soon as he wrapped up his performance there in New York with Miley Cyrus. 

Michaels, who seems to be doing well after suffering some serious health setbacks this year, took a break from his nationwide tour to perform the Poison hit "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Cyrus on GMA. Cyrus covers the hit on her new album, "Can't Be Tamed." She said it's her mother's favorite song.

Miley Cyrus: Live at the 02 (8pm, ABC) - Miley Cyrus performs live at the O2 Arena in London. I can't promise there won't be pole dancing.

Friday Night Lights (8pm, NBC) - Vince is in at QB1, Luke gets injured on the farm, and Landry makes a move on Jess. Julie grieves over her breakup with Matt.

Flashpoint (9pm, CBS) - A young woman who was taken in by a cult leader 15 years earlier robs a convenience store and the SRU group learns that the head of the cult plans to murder all of his followers by the end of the day.

Whale Wars (9pm, Animal Planet) - The Sea Shepherds launch a butyric-acid attack against a whaling reconnaissance ship that has been tailing them.

Crossroads (10pm, CMT) - John Mayer and Keith Urban play each other's songs together and discuss musical common ground.

There's no agency that monitors the ingredients of cosmetics, and there's no law that says cosmetic companies have to disclose all their ingredients.

Kinda scary when you think about it.

With that in mind, you might find "Not So Sexy," a report on perfumes from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Environmental Working Group interesting.

Comedian Kathy Griffin filled in for Larry King last night on CNN's "Larry King Live," and one of the people she picked to interview was Bristol Palin's ex, Levi Johnston. Johnston, coincidentally, had been Griffin's date the night before at the Teen Choice Awards.

Griffin's shtick throughout most of the interview revolved around her "serious relationship" with Johnston, who is 19 years old. When she joked about waking up in his arms and staring into his "chocolate eyes," and asked him questions about their future life together in Wasilla, Johnston gamely played along, usually with a grin and very short answers. But even in his good mood, Johnston did manage to get in a quick Palin dig later in the interview...

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It seems impossible to imagine that a hit single by Disney teen star Miley Cyrus would have plagiarized a long-ago song by Raleigh punk band Th' Cigaretz. But as compared and contrasted by Comboland Radio's Mike Smith, hearing is believing. So take a listen and see what you think.

I have no idea how this would hold up in court, or what the chances are that any of the Cyrus song's four credited co-writers ever heard Th' Cigaretz. Still, there's no denying that there are some eerie similarities between the two.

UPDATE (12/2/08): Today I caught up with Byron McCay from Th' Cigaretz, and he professed to be stunned about having this fall out of the sky. But McCay actually remembers the night the band wrote the song in question, "Apartmental Living," 30-some years ago at their rehearsal space near the campus of NC State.

"Jerry Williams came up with that particular riff," McCay says. "I wrote the words, and the change that goes with the B chord -- 'I gotta go, I gotta move, I gotta find a new place to stay.' There are a lot of gray holes in my memory from back then. But for some reason, I remember that song pretty well."

"Apartmental Living" appeared on Cigaretz' self-released album "Tuff Kids." While it wasn't a big hit, McCay says "Tuff Kids" sold about 1,500 copies, mostly in Raleigh and New York -- a decent sum for a DIY album in the late '70s.

Of course, that's a tiny fraction of the million-plus sales Miley Cyrus has rung up for "Breakout," her album with "Fly on the Wall." Royalties for having a song on a platinum album would run into the mid-five figures, which doesn't include money for radio and television airplay. So McCay is going to contact his old Cigaretz bandmates; maybe they'll hire a lawyer.

"It's rather ironic," McCay says. "I'm writing country songs now. I've got one that would be perfect for Billy Ray Cyrus."

Perhaps Miley's dad can record that song as part of a settlement.

ADDENDA: Speaking of musical thefts, Led Zeppelin. And there must be something in the air.