Legend TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Legend Tonight

Legend is what the old Horror Channel turned into after its 2022 rebrand: still free to air, still fond of a monster, but now handing most of its evenings to sci-fi, fantasy and action cinema. Tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026, the day’s earlier runs of The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Walker, Texas Ranger repeat through early evening before the 9pm film, Harvey Keitel thriller The Young Americans (1993), with Al Pacino’s Donnie Brasco (1997) closing the night at 11:10pm. Full schedule below.

Legend Schedule: Wednesday 5 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Wednesday 5 August 2026, on Freeview 41.

What’s on Legend today

The overnight hours run two war-adjacent thrillers back to back. Code Name: Geronimo, at 1:30am, is the 2012 military drama in which a squad of US Navy Seals discover their top-secret target is Osama bin Laden. Man Down, at 3:20am, follows with Shia LaBeouf as a Marine who comes home from Afghanistan to find his hometown destroyed and his family gone. Legend goes off air just before 5am and fills the gap with two and a half hours of teleshopping from 5:30am.

Daytime settles into Legend’s usual rhythm of American genre television. Walker, Texas Ranger opens proceedings at 8am with series three’s third episode, followed by The Six Million Dollar Man and Babylon 5’s second season at 10am. Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse, at 11am, is a 2014 sci-fi thriller with Christopher Lloyd as the scientist who holds the only answer once a rogue planet crosses the sun and disaster follows. After the midday Legend Lowdown update, Triple Cross takes the 1pm slot, a fact-based 1967 spy story with Christopher Plummer as Eddie Chapman, the bank robber turned Nazi recruit turned British double agent. The Gorgon, at 3:25pm, is vintage Hammer with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton, villagers meeting a stony fate once a Gorgon takes human form. Star Trek: The Original Series airs at 5pm before the evening’s repeat run of The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Walker, Texas Ranger begins again at 6pm.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026.

The Six Million Dollar Man — Legend, 6pm

The evening’s rerun block opens with The Six Million Dollar Man (series 5, episode 3). Steve Austin is preparing for a space mission to link two satellites while a killer stalks him on the ground.

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

Babylon 5 continues at 7pm with series two’s twentieth episode. The Centauri war machine grinds on toward the Narn homeworld while what’s left of the Narn fleet plots one last counter-attack.

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

Walker, Texas Ranger takes the 8pm hour with series three’s fourth episode. Chuck Norris’s Ranger is wounded after confronting ranchers set on killing a herd of federally protected horses.

The Young Americans — Legend, 9pm

The night’s film is The Young Americans, a 1993 thriller with Harvey Keitel as a hard-bitten New York cop sent to Scotland Yard to help tackle Europe’s growing drug trade. He arrives with an agenda of his own that has little to do with the case he’s supposedly there to assist.

Donnie Brasco — Legend, 11:10pm

Donnie Brasco closes the night at 11:10pm. Al Pacino stars in the 1997 gangster drama as an ageing wiseguy who takes Johnny Depp’s undercover FBI agent under his wing, unaware the friendship he’s forming is the one that will undo him.

What kind of shows are on Legend

Cult horror and its Horror Channel roots

Horror hasn’t been dropped, just demoted. Amicus and Hammer-adjacent anthologies still turn up, along with independent chillers and oddities like Horror Express, though these days they land in the afternoon or after midnight rather than at 9pm.

Sci-fi, fantasy and action films

Most evenings belong to genre cinema of a specific vintage: Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren, and further back, the fantasy adventures Ray Harryhausen animated. Film4 has the recent theatrical releases covered. Legend is working two or three decades earlier, and there is less competition for that ground than you would think.

Classic genre television

Very few channels still hand hours to vintage American genre TV. Legend does. The Twilight Zone runs as a nightly double bill, and Star Trek, Babylon 5 and The Six Million Dollar Man fill most weekday daytimes.

How to watch Legend

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Legend across the main UK television platforms:

No subscription is required on any of them. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can shift depending on your box and region, so trust your on-screen guide over this table if the two disagree.

Streaming online

Legend streams live and free through the WatchFreeUK app, available on Freeview Play, Freesat and YouView, and as a download on iOS, Android, Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account or sign-up is required, which is more than can be said for most of its rivals. The catch-up section carries a selection of recently broadcast programmes, but licensing means not everything that airs stays available, and windows vary by title.

Legend Xtra and sister channels

Legend Xtra launched on 1 July 2022 as HorrorXtra and took its current name in a November 2023 refresh. Same broad mix of action, sci-fi and horror, free on Freeview channel 69, Sky 317, Virgin Media 171, Freesat 138 and Freely 51, with a +1 timeshift on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat.

Both channels belong to the CBS AMC Networks UK Channels Partnership, a joint venture between Paramount Networks UK & Australia and AMC Networks International UK. True Crime and True Crime Xtra come from the same stable and sit alongside them in the WatchFreeUK app.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is Legend on Freeview?

Legend is on Freeview channel 41.

What’s on Legend tonight?

Tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026, the 9pm film is The Young Americans, Harvey Keitel’s 1993 thriller, followed at 11:10pm by Al Pacino’s Donnie Brasco (1997). Times are in the schedule table above.

Is Legend free to watch?

Yes, entirely. There are advert breaks during films and between programmes, but no subscription fee on any platform.

What was Legend called before?

It launched in 2004 as The Horror Channel, briefly became Zone Horror in 2006, reverted to Horror Channel in 2010, and became Legend on 30 June 2022.

Can I watch Legend online?

Yes, live and free through the WatchFreeUK app, no account needed.

Verdict

Legend is not chasing prestige and would look daft if it tried. What it does instead is give proper scheduled hours to material other free channels treat as gap-filler: cult horror, vintage American sci-fi, and the unfashionable action cinema Van Damme and his contemporaries spent the 1990s making.

Wednesday’s daytime is a fairly typical mix for the channel: Triple Cross and The Gorgon either side of the midday Legend Lowdown update, with Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse’s planetary-disaster plot filling the late-morning slot. The evening belongs to the two films. The Young Americans at 9pm is competent Keitel, a Scotland Yard drug-trade thriller that knows exactly what kind of Wednesday night it’s aimed at and doesn’t overreach. Donnie Brasco at 11:10pm is the sturdier piece: the true story behind it gives Al Pacino and Johnny Depp more to work with, and it closes out Legend’s night on the stronger note of the two.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide