Thursday's TV Highlights

Martin Strel is an endurance athlete par excellence in <i>Big River Man<i>. Photo / Supplied

Motorway Patrol
8PM, TV2
A routine police stop escalates into a full-blown pursuit; meanwhile there's a lucky escape from a flipped van, and a pedestrian who's been on the booze becomes a nuisance.

Survivors
8.30PM, Prime
The latest re-make from the BBC, which originally ran for three unsettling seasons in the 1970s with its tale about a small group of people holed up on a farm in the aftermath of a virus which killed most of the world's population. The central character is this version is played by Julie Graham (At Home With the Braithwaites).

Knowing
8.30PM, Sky Movies
Nicholas Cage stars in this paranoid sci-fi thriller from director Alex Proyas (I, Robot) about the opening of a time capsule from 1959. (2009)

Big River Man
8.30PM, Rialto Sky Digital
Documentary about Slovenian Martin Strel, who swims some of the world's biggest rivers. After swimming the Danube, the Yangtze and the Mississippi, he takes on the Amazon River. (2009)