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

Published: 23 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. Monday opens overnight with Robert De Niro’s obsessive-fan thriller The Fan, then runs a full weekday shift of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Trapped in Space before a pair of westerns, one built around Gregory Peck and one around Elvis Presley, fill the afternoon. The same three genre-TV strands repeat into the evening ahead of Sylvester Stallone’s racing drama Driven at 9pm and a decades-old action thriller closing the night. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight belongs to a single film: Robert De Niro plays a baseball obsessive whose devotion to a struggling player curdles into stalking in The Fan, a 1996 thriller from 1:50am. Legend goes off air just after 4am and stays dark until 5:30am, then runs teleshopping until programmes resume properly at 8am.

Breakfast and the morning are a run of genre television. Walker, Texas Ranger opens the day at 8am with the first half of a two-part robbery case, before The Six Million Dollar Man’s fifth series continues at 9am and Babylon 5’s third series holds 10am, Captain Sheridan declaring Babylon 5 independent as President Clark tightens his grip on the Earth Alliance. Trapped in Space closes out the morning at 11am: a 1990s science-fiction adventure, adapted from short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, in which Jack Coleman’s crew find their crippled ship carrying two more people than its oxygen supply can support.

Legend Lowdown, a short look ahead at the month’s upcoming films and series, breaks up the schedule at 12:50pm. Two westerns then carry the afternoon: Gregory Peck leads Only The Valiant from 1pm, a 1951 cavalry picture built on a Charles Marquis Warren novel, and Elvis Presley headlines Charro! from 3pm, a 1969 western about a reformed outlaw clearing his name over a stolen gold-plated cannon.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 24 August 2026.

Star Trek – The Original Series — Legend, 5pm

The evening opens with one of the original series’ most quoted hours: Kirk and the Enterprise crew cross paths with a genetically engineered tyrant calling himself Khan Noonien Singh, a name that will mean rather more to anyone who has seen the second Star Trek film. This is 1967 television doing the groundwork for a movie made fifteen years later.

The Six Million Dollar Man — Legend, 6pm

Steve Austin turns castaway in the first half of a two-part story, washing up on an island whose inhabitants turn out to be descended from visitors to Earth from another world. Series five was leaning further into science fiction by this point, and the bionics take a back seat to the mystery.

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

After the station cuts its ties with Earth, Delenn proposes a Minbari rebirth ceremony to help the command staff process what has just happened. It plays quieter than the declaration of independence that preceded it, more concerned with what the crew owe each other than what they owe Earth.

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

The second half of a two-parter has Trivette piecing together the pattern behind a string of robberies carried out by men in clown masks, while Walker takes his late friend Logan’s rebellious teenage son in hand. Grief and procedure sit side by side, which was always this show’s trick.

Driven — Legend, 9pm

Sylvester Stallone wrote and starred in this 2001 racing drama, playing a retired champion brought back into the paddock to mentor a young driver struggling under the weight of his first serious season. Renny Harlin directs, and the film leans on real CART racing footage as much as it leans on plot.

Man on Fire — Legend, 11:25pm

Not the Denzel Washington film many viewers will know: this is the 1987 original, with Scott Glenn as a burnt-out former CIA operative hired to protect a kidnapped schoolgirl in Italy, alongside Joe Pesci and Jonathan Pryce. It plays slower and stranger than the 2004 remake, and is worth knowing on its own terms.

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, Monday 24 August 2026, it’s a run of genre television into the evening — Star Trek at 5pm, The Six Million Dollar Man at 6pm, Babylon 5 at 7pm and Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm — before Driven (2001), starring Sylvester Stallone, takes the 9pm film slot and Man on Fire (1987), with Scott Glenn, closes the night at 11:25pm.

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.

Monday runs the same shape on different stock: The Fan overnight, a morning of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Trapped in Space, then two westerns before the evening repeats those same genre-TV strands into a Stallone racing picture and a decades-old action thriller most viewers will confuse with its more famous remake. Nobody is pretending this is a discovery channel. It knows exactly what it is.

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