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

Published: 4 September 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. Saturday runs an afternoon of westerns — The Legend of Butch & Sundance, Red Sun, Shoot Out and The Southern Star — before The Twilight Zone takes its usual 8pm slot, Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan’s thriller The Foreigner (2017) anchors 9pm, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Unthinkable (2010) closes the night at 11:20pm. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Saturday 5 September 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight brings two crime thrillers, Anti-Life at 1:20am and Bushwick at 3:15am, before Legend goes off air just after 5am with a card announcing programmes resume at 5:30am, then runs teleshopping until 7am. Two episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man open the schedule proper at 7am and 8am, and three consecutive episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard run from 9am to midday.

The afternoon is westerns almost throughout: The Legend of Butch & Sundance at midday, Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune’s Red Sun at 1:45pm, Gregory Peck’s Shoot Out at 4pm, and the George Segal, Ursula Andress and Orson Welles adventure-comedy The Southern Star closing out the daytime at 5:50pm, ahead of the evening line-up below.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 5 September 2026.

The Twilight Zone — Legend, 8pm

A submarine sunk two decades earlier starts claiming victims through the sounds it once made. Rod Serling’s original series, still one of the sharpest half-hours on free-to-air television regardless of the channel number it’s parked on.

The Foreigner — Legend, 9pm

Jackie Chan plays a London restaurateur turning vigilante after his daughter is killed in a bombing, with Pierce Brosnan as the Irish politician he suspects knows more than he’s saying. A 2017 thriller that leans on Chan doing something other than his usual register, and it mostly works.

Unthinkable — Legend, 11:20pm

Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie-Anne Moss play interrogators racing to locate hidden nuclear devices in this 2010 thriller. Late slot, and it earns its place there rather than padding out the schedule.

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, Saturday 5 September 2026, Legend runs The Dukes of Hazzard at 6pm and Babylon 5 at 7pm, then Walker, Texas Ranger opens a new story at 8pm, before the night hands over entirely to the 1984 gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America from 9pm, running unbroken to 1:20am.

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.

Saturday runs the same idea on different stock: two overnight crime films, a daytime built from Legend’s own vintage American TV strands running around a shark thriller and two classic westerns, then an evening that brings back The Dukes of Hazzard and Babylon 5 before Walker, Texas Ranger opens a fresh story at 8pm and hands over to a single four-hour gangster epic to close out the night. 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