Is everything really bigger in Texas? “Build it Bigger” (9 p.m., Science), a series dedicated to the engineering and science behind some of the world’s largest structures, visits the site of the new stadium being built for the Dallas Cowboys. Everything about the 80,000-seat arena is superlative. It measures in excess of 3 million square feet. It will feature the largest retractable roof ever constructed, the largest glass door on the planet and two HD video screens that are 180 feet long.

Later on this season “Build it Bigger” will visit a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., where amphibious ships are assembled, Cape Canaveral, Fla., already home to some of the world’s biggest structures, and to Panama, where the canal needs widening.

• “We Shall Remain” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings), the “American Experience” five-part history of Native Americans, continues with a history of a pan-tribal revival under Tecumseh in the early 1800s. Inspired by his brother’s religious vision, Tecumseh united disparate nations to resist the westward expansion of the fledgling United States. “Remain” will air every Monday over the next three weeks.

• The onslaught of “green” programming continues, particularly on Planet Green, the network devoted to environmental programming, or at least to making programming sound environmental. On two episodes of “Emeril Green” (8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Planet Green), the loud chef helps a family throw an eco-friendly birthday party and then travels with a couple trying to adjust to the RV lifestyle while lowering their consumption footprint.

Concerns about food, health, business and the environment loom large in two very different offerings. Director Richard Linklater (“Dazed and Confused”) adapts Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food Nation” (7 p.m., IFC) in a 2006 drama exploring the lives of different characters working in and around one of a America’s biggest service industries. “Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire” (8 p.m., CNBC) looks at the business side of the golden arches, from market-tested menus to strenuous efforts to enter the Chinese market.

• Drama is all about the suspension of disbelief. But some illusions are easier to buy than others. How worried can we be about Jack Bauer dying on “24” (8 p.m., Fox)? Particularly when Kiefer Sutherland has said he’s looking forward to another season? It doesn’t help when Fox airs coming attractions showing Bauer running through explosions, yelling and screaming, and looking right as rain.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Chuck risks all to save Dad (Scott Bakula) on “Chuck” (7 p.m., NBC).

• Booth and Brennan notice some odd things at a co-worker’s wake on “Bones” (7 p.m., Fox).

• The competition continues on “Dancing with the Stars” (7 p.m., ABC).

• Sylar’s new skills come with a price on “Heroes” (8 p.m., NBC).

• An undercover mission to catch a Casanova on “The Mentalist” (9 p.m., CBS).

• A stalker from a dream becomes a little too real on “Medium” (9 p.m., NBC).

• Murder in a posh locale on “Castle” (9 p.m., ABC).

Cult choice

Director Stanley Kramer assembled an all-star cast, including Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney and many more for his 1963 comedy “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (9:15 p.m., AMC), resulting in more explosions than real laughs.