SERIES

Filmmakers Chris Cox and Matthew Sloane solicit the people of Alton, Ill., to star in the spoof “Silence of the Yams,” about a vegetarian Dr. Hannibal Lecter force-feeding an FBI agent vegetables, on the premiere of “TNN’s Small Shots” (8 p.m. TNN).

SPECIALS

MTV VJ Brian McFayden and singer Mandy Moore host the Miss Teen USA competition from South Padre Island, Texas. (9 p.m. CBS).

MOVIES

Uptight electrical engineer Al Fountain (John Turturro) meets up with a free-wheeling Davy Crockett wannabe “the Kid” (Sam Rockwell) in the quirky “Box of Moonlight” (5 and 9:30 p.m. IFC).

In “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” Pee-wee Herman travels across the country in search of his new bicycle, which is stolen, befriending a convict and a bus driver along the way (8 p.m. WB).