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

Published: 10 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. Friday’s early evening runs its usual genre-TV rotation — Babylon 5 at 7pm, Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm — before the 1995 action thriller Desperado, with Antonio Banderas, takes 9pm, and the Jason Statham thriller Wild Card closes the night at 11:10pm. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Friday 11 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Friday 11 September 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight brings the war thriller The Devil’s Own at 1am and the 2018 action film Speed Kills at 3:05am, before Legend goes off air just after 5am and returns with teleshopping at 5:30am. Walker, Texas Ranger opens the schedule proper at 8am (series 4, episode 5), then The Dukes of Hazzard, Babylon 5 and the thriller Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy carry the rest of the morning.

A short Legend Lowdown bulletin at 12:50pm leads into the western Cowboy at 1pm, then the western Sitting Bull takes 2:50pm. Star Trek: The Original Series closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of the evening line-up below.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 11 September 2026.

The Dukes of Hazzard — Legend, 6pm

Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco try, and fail, to pin a robbery on Bo and Luke Duke that they had nothing to do with (series 1, episode 8).

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

An unidentified ship closes in on the station while the search for allies in the brewing war continues elsewhere on the frontier (series 4, episode 3).

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

Walker’s called in against a killer working a Halloween-timed spree who fancies himself something supernatural (series 4, episode 6).

Desperado — Legend, 9pm

Robert Rodriguez’s 1995 follow-up to El Mariachi. Antonio Banderas plays a guitar-case-toting gunman who arrives in a small border town looking for the men who wronged him, and doesn’t plan on leaving quietly.

Wild Card — Legend, 11:10pm

Jason Statham plays a Las Vegas bodyguard whose gambling habit puts him in debt to, and then in open conflict with, a mob boss.

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, Friday 11 September 2026, Babylon 5 runs at 7pm and Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm, then Desperado (1995), with Antonio Banderas, takes 9pm. Wild Card, starring Jason Statham, closes the night at 11:10pm.

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.

Friday runs the same idea on different stock: two overnight genre films, a morning of Westerns and space opera, then two more archive features before the evening proper. Babylon 5 opens at 7pm, Walker, Texas Ranger follows at 8pm, Desperado takes 9pm, and Wild Card closes out at 11:10pm. 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