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

Published: 22 August 2026

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. Sunday opens overnight with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plane-crash thriller Aftermath, then works through five straight episodes of Babylon 5’s third series before a run of vintage genre pictures fills the afternoon. Charlton Heston’s Earthquake takes over at 5:30pm and does not let go until 8pm, a Twilight Zone double bill follows, and Milla Jovovich’s Survivor and Edward Fox’s The Day of the Jackal close out the night. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight belongs to two modern action pictures. Aftermath opens at 1:45am, Arnold Schwarzenegger playing a man whose life becomes tangled with a stranger’s after a plane crash. Deadly Target follows at 3:35am, Michael Jai White hunting down whoever murdered his brother. Legend goes off air shortly after 5am and stays dark until 5:30am, then runs teleshopping until programmes resume properly at 7am with the first of five straight Babylon 5 episodes, series three running hour by hour from episode six to episode ten and closing out just before midday.

The afternoon belongs to three decades of vintage science fiction. The War of the Worlds, Gene Barry’s 1953 version of the Wells invasion story, opens the run at noon. The Day of the Triffids follows at 1:45pm, Howard Keel battling carnivorous plants after a meteor shower blinds most of the population, and Doomwatch closes the trio at 3:40pm, a 1972 ecological horror about chemical dumping turning an island’s fishermen murderous.

The afternoon closes out with the day’s single biggest block: Charlton Heston’s Earthquake starts at 5:30pm and does not let go until 8pm, taking the 6pm and 7pm hours outright. Heston plays an architect combing the ruins of a levelled Los Angeles for his wife in this 1974 disaster picture, and there is nothing else scheduled against it for two and a half hours.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026.

Earthquake — Legend, 5:30pm

Charlton Heston’s 1974 disaster picture starts well before primetime proper and simply keeps going, covering the 6pm and 7pm hours outright before the schedule reaches 8pm. An architect picking through the wreckage of a flattened Los Angeles in search of his wife carries the two and a half hours.

The Twilight Zone — Legend, 8pm

Series three’s nightly double bill opens with “Young Man’s Fancy” (episode 34), a new husband who cannot shift his late mother’s hold over the family home.

The Twilight Zone — Legend, 8:30pm

The second half follows straight after at 8:30pm: “I Sing the Body Electric” (episode 35), Ray Bradbury’s own script for a widower whose children must choose between an aunt and a mechanical grandmother built to raise them.

Survivor — Legend, 9pm

Worth flagging early: this is the 2015 thriller with Milla Jovovich, not the reality show of the same name. She plays a US embassy worker in London framed for a bombing, forced on the run while a second attack is being planned for New York.

The Day Of The Jackal — Legend, 11pm

Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel closes the night. Edward Fox is the hired assassin targeting Charles de Gaulle, with the police always half a step behind 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, Sunday 23 August 2026, Charlton Heston’s Earthquake (1974) runs from 5:30pm to 8pm, covering the 6pm and 7pm hours by itself. A Twilight Zone double bill follows at 8pm and 8:30pm, then Survivor (2015), with Milla Jovovich, takes the 9pm slot, before The Day of the Jackal (1973), starring Edward Fox, closes the night at 11pm.

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 gives instead is proper scheduled hours to material other free channels treat as filler. Horror Channel-era chillers hold the fringes of the schedule, but most nights now belong to the action cinema Van Damme and his contemporaries were making through the 1990s.

Sunday runs the same shape on different stock: Aftermath and Deadly Target overnight, five hours of Babylon 5’s third series through the morning, then three decades of vintage sci-fi before Earthquake is handed the run of the early evening. A Twilight Zone double and two thrillers forty years apart carry the schedule to close. Nobody is pretending this is a discovery channel. It knows exactly what it is.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week