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

Published: 26 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. Thursday opens overnight with a father-and-son revenge thriller and a serial-killer chiller, then runs a full weekday shift of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Six Million Dollar Man and Babylon 5 before a volcano disaster movie and two classic adventures fill the middle of the day. The same three genre-TV strands repeat into the evening ahead of the 2009 thriller Law Abiding Citizen at 9pm and the 2015 action film Riot closing the night. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight is two films back to back. Vendetta opens at 1:10am, the 2022 revenge thriller in which Clive Standen’s ex-Marine goes after the gang responsible for his daughter’s death, dragging Bruce Willis and Theo Rossi’s characters into the fallout. Jack’s Back follows at 3:10am, the 1988 James Spader thriller about a modern-day killer copying the Jack the Ripper murders in Los Angeles. Legend goes off air just after 5am 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, before The Six Million Dollar Man returns at 9am in a different episode from tonight’s 6pm outing. Babylon 5 takes 10am. Magma: Volcanic Disaster closes out the morning at 11am, a 2006 TV movie in which a volcanologist tries to convince a sceptical government that a chain of eruptions is about to threaten the whole planet.

Two classic films carry the afternoon: Donovan’s Reef from 12:45pm, John Ford’s 1963 South Pacific comedy with John Wayne and Lee Marvin, and Damn the Defiant! from 2:55pm, the 1962 Napoleonic-era naval drama starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 27 August 2026.

The Six Million Dollar Man — Legend, 6pm

The Six Million Dollar Man takes the 6pm slot with series 5’s “Dead Ringer” (episode 18), part of the weekday genre-TV run Legend keeps ahead of its 9pm film.

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

At 7pm, it’s Babylon 5, “Ship of Tears” (series 3, episode 14), Sheridan drawn into an uneasy alliance with an old adversary.

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

The 8pm hour belongs to Walker, Texas Ranger with “On Sacred Ground” (series 2, episode 20), a land dispute that pulls Cordell Walker into a Cherokee community’s protest.

Law Abiding Citizen — Legend, 9pm

Law Abiding Citizen (2009) takes the 9pm slot. Gerard Butler’s engineer turns vigilante after a plea deal lets his family’s killer walk free, and Jamie Foxx’s prosecutor spends the rest of the film trying to stay ahead of him.

Riot — Legend, 11:15pm

At 11:15pm, it’s Riot (2015), Dolph Lundgren leading an action thriller built around a bare-knuckle fighting racket, closing out Legend’s night.

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, Thursday 27 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 Law Abiding Citizen (2009), with Gerard Butler, takes the 9pm film slot and Riot (2015), with Dolph Lundgren, closes the night at 11:15pm.

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.

Thursday runs the same shape on different stock: two overnight films, a morning of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and a volcano disaster movie, then a pair of classic naval and South Seas films before the evening repeats those same genre-TV strands into a Gerard Butler revenge thriller and a late-night Dolph Lundgren actioner. 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