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

Published: 6 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. Monday’s early evening runs its usual genre-TV rotation — Babylon 5 at 7pm, Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm — before John McTiernan’s 2003 thriller Basic takes 9pm, and Tom Cruise’s American Made (2017) closes the night at 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Monday 7 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Monday 7 September 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight brings the crime drama We Still Kill The Old Way at 1:30am and the Hammer horror The Blood on Satan’s Claw at 3:15am, before Legend goes off air just after 5am and returns with teleshopping at 5:30am. Walker, Texas Ranger opens the schedule proper at 8am, then The Dukes of Hazzard, Babylon 5 and the adventure film George and the Dragon carry the rest of the morning.

Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad takes 1pm, Hammer’s The Curse of the Werewolf follows at 3pm, and Star Trek: The Original Series closes out the afternoon at 5pm, with a short Legend Lowdown bulletin splitting each film from the next, ahead of the evening line-up below.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 7 September 2026.

The Dukes of Hazzard — Legend, 6pm

Bo and Luke land in another scrape over a car deal gone wrong, series 1 still working through Hazzard County’s endless supply of crooked salesmen.

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

Series 3 reaches one of the show’s turning points, the White Star fleet meeting the Shadows in open battle for the first time. Worth catching even out of sequence.

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

Chuck Norris teams up with an undercover cop to bring down a drug lord, series 4 continuing its dependable one-hour-case formula.

Basic — Legend, 9pm

John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson lead John McTiernan’s 2003 thriller about an army training exercise that goes badly wrong, everyone in the room giving a different account of what actually happened.

American Made — Legend, 11pm

Tom Cruise plays real-life pilot Barry Seal in this 2017 film, running drugs and CIA cargo through 1980s Central America until both sides come calling at once.

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 7 September 2026, Babylon 5 runs at 7pm and Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm, then Basic (2003), with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, takes 9pm. American Made (2017), starring Tom Cruise, 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.

Monday runs the same idea on different stock: two overnight genre films, a morning of Westerns and space opera, then two more classic-adventure repeats before the evening proper. Babylon 5 opens at 7pm, Walker, Texas Ranger follows at 8pm, Basic takes 9pm, and American Made closes out at 11pm. 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