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Young actors Scarlett Pomers, Daryl Sabara, and Bobb'e J. Thompson pick a winner in "America's Most Talented Kids" (7 p.m., Pax), a talent competition for ages 3 to 15.
For more than 30 years, former CBS cameraman Kurt Volkert has been searching for nine colleagues who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 during the Vietnam War. The day after they vanished, Volkert found the burnt remains of their vehicle along with bone fragments. Since then, he's discovered the deadly fate of eight. "Nine Men Down" (8 p.m., History Channel) is a 90-minute special that follows Volkert's search for the still-missing cameraman who took Volkert's place on that day.
It was one of those strange but true news stories: an angry Houston woman who ran over her cheating husband not once but three times. Sela Ward stars in "Suburban Madness" (9 p.m., CBS), the tale of Clara Harris, whose rage led her to drive her Mercedes into the headlines. Ward plays private investigator Bobbi Bacha, who was hired by Harris, played by Elizabeth Pena, to investigate her dentist-husband.
"Mystery! Death in Holy Orders" (9 p.m., PBS), which is based on the crime novel by P.D. James, is a two-part drama featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh, played by Martin Shaw. The story is set at a theological college on Britain's coastline, where a seminary student is found smothered by an avalanche of sand. The young man's influential father demands that Scotland Yard review the case.
Fresh off his surprise Emmy victory, James Spader returns as smarmy attorney Alan Shore -- but in a different law firm and a different series. "The Practice" has ended, and now its spinoff show, "Boston Legal" (10 p.m., ABC) assumes its old time slot. William Shatner also stars.
Honorees Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Patricia Clarkson, Anne Hathaway and Olivia de Havilland offer interviews during the one-hour awards special "Women in Hollywood" (10 p.m., AMC).