Legend TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Legend Tonight
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EntertainmentThe Fabulous Journey To The Centre of the Earth
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EntertainmentConan the Barbarian (2011)
EntertainmentEquilibrium (2002)
EntertainmentLegend 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’s afternoon runs an adventure double bill — The Assassination Bureau and The Fabulous Journey To The Centre of the Earth — before The Twilight Zone takes its usual 8pm slot, the 2011 Conan the Barbarian (with Jason Momoa, not the 1982 Schwarzenegger version) anchors 9pm, and Christian Bale’s Equilibrium (2002) closes the night at 11:20pm. Full breakdown below.
Legend Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)
Here is the complete Legend schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 41.
Overnight
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1:20am | Bad Lieutenant | |
| 3:15am | The Most Dangerous Game | |
| 5am | Close | Off air until 5.30am |
| 5:30am | Teleshopping |
Breakfast
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 7am | Babylon 5 | S3E16 |
| 8am | Babylon 5 | S3E17 |
Morning
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am | Babylon 5 | S3E18 |
| 10am | Babylon 5 | S3E19 |
| 11am | Babylon 5 | S3E20 |
Afternoon
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 12pm | The Assassination Bureau | |
| 2:05pm | The Fabulous Journey To The Centre of the Earth | |
| 3:55pm | Flight World War II |
Early evening
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 5:35pm | Stealth |
Primetime
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 8pm | The Twilight Zone | S4E3 |
| 9pm | Conan the Barbarian (2011) |
Late night
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 11:20pm | Equilibrium (2002) |
What’s on Legend today
Overnight brings the crime thriller Bad Lieutenant at 1:20am and the survival thriller The Most Dangerous Game 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. Five consecutive episodes of Babylon 5 fill the schedule from 7am to midday.
The afternoon is adventure and war films: The Assassination Bureau at midday, The Fabulous Journey To The Centre of the Earth at 2:05pm, Flight World War II at 3:55pm, and the Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel thriller Stealth closing out the daytime at 5:35pm, ahead of the evening line-up below.
Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule
Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.
The Twilight Zone — Legend, 8pm
Rod Serling’s original anthology takes its regular 8pm berth (series 4, episode 3), still stranger than most of what airs around it.
Conan the Barbarian — Legend, 9pm
Worth a note before pressing play: tonight’s Conan is the 2011 remake with Jason Momoa as the warrior avenging his murdered father, not the 1982 Schwarzenegger original. Ron Perlman plays the warlord responsible.
Equilibrium (2002) — Legend, 11:20pm
Christian Bale closes the night in Equilibrium, a dystopian thriller about a lawman who abandons the emotion-suppressing regime he’s sworn to enforce.
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:
| Platform | Channel |
|---|---|
| Freeview | 41 |
| Sky | 148 |
| Virgin Media | 149 |
| Freesat | 137 |
| Freely | 38 |
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 6 September 2026, The Twilight Zone runs at 8pm, then the 2011 Conan the Barbarian, with Jason Momoa in the title role, takes 9pm. Equilibrium (2002), starring Christian Bale, closes the night at 11:20pm.
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 idea on different stock: two overnight thrillers, five Babylon 5 episodes carrying the morning, then an adventure-film afternoon before the evening proper. The Twilight Zone opens at 8pm as always, the 2011 Conan the Barbarian (Momoa, not Schwarzenegger — worth flagging since Legend has shown both over the years) takes 9pm, and Christian Bale’s Equilibrium closes out at 11:20pm. 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
