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

Updated: 20 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. Tonight, Sunday 20 September 2026, the Legend Lowdown magazine show opens the evening at 7:50pm, then a Twilight Zone episode holds 8pm ahead of the submarine thriller Hunter Killer at 9pm. The survival thriller No Escape closes the night at 11:30pm. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Sunday 20 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Sunday 20 September 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

The thriller Primal runs overnight from 1:15am, followed by Nomads at 3:10am, before Legend goes off air just before 5am and returns with teleshopping at 5:30am. Five Babylon 5 episodes then carry breakfast and the morning through to midday, when the western Against a Crooked Sky takes over.

Two Rode Together and Boot Hill hold the early afternoon, before The Mountain closes out the pre-primetime run from 5:45pm, ahead of the evening line-up below.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 20 September 2026.

Legend Lowdown — Legend, 7:50pm

A short round-up of what’s coming up across Legend and its sister channels, running ahead of the evening’s main films and pitched at anyone deciding whether tonight’s line-up is worth staying in for.

The Twilight Zone — Legend, 8pm

This is one of the hour-long instalments from the show’s fourth season, made when Rod Serling’s anthology briefly doubled its usual running time. The extended format didn’t last a full season, which makes tonight’s episode a slightly unusual outlier next to the classic half-hour episodes Legend runs most other nights.

Hunter Killer — Legend, 9pm

Gerard Butler leads this submarine thriller as a US Navy captain sent to investigate a lost vessel near Russian waters, only to find himself caught up in an attempted coup. Cold War tension dressed up in modern hardware, and the kind of large-scale action Legend rarely gets to schedule.

No Escape — Legend, 11:30pm

Owen Wilson plays an American executive relocating his family to Southeast Asia just as a violent coup breaks out around them. Tense rather than gory, and a change of pace from the war and sci-fi pictures that usually fill Legend’s late slot.

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?

The Legend Lowdown magazine show opens the evening at 7:50pm, then a Twilight Zone episode holds 8pm ahead of Hunter Killer at 9pm. No Escape closes the night at 11:30pm.

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.

Tonight is a quieter shape than usual: the Legend Lowdown round-up at 7:50pm, a rare hour-long Twilight Zone episode at 8pm, then Legend hands the evening over to the submarine thriller Hunter Killer at 9pm. The night closes on No Escape at 11:30pm. Nobody is pretending this is a discovery channel. It knows exactly what it is.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV Tonight