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April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

James Cameron’s stunning sci-fi thriller THE ABYSS leads LEGEND’s channel premiere line-up for May 2025

James Cameron’s stunning underwater sci-fi thriller THE ABYSS gets a rare UK TV showing leading LEGEND’s channel premiere line-up for May 2025. And for those who like their sci-fi adventures subterranean, LEGEND also presents three classic ‘matinee’ premieres – JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959), VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961) and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972), starring Gene Hackman. Hackman also stars in action thriller BEHIND ENEMY LINES.

Other sci-fi / fantasy picks this month include IMPOSTER (2001), from the author of Total Recall and Blade Runner, and HIGHLANDER III: THE SORCERER, where, once again, Connor MacLeod (Christoper Lambert) is forced to face a new, dangerous enemy.

Plus, there are three high-octane action thrillers receiving first time showings on LEGEND – FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, starring Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe, KISS OF THE DRAGON starring Jet Li and Bridget Fonda, and GOLD starring Matthew McConaughey.

There are also two entries by British director Nick Cave – crime dramas THE BUSINESS and OUTLAW, both starring Danny Dyer. The latter also stars Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins.

Here’s all you need to know:

Let’s start on the 2nd with one of Danny Dyer’s earliest movies, THE BUSINESS. Frankie (Dyer) is a young lad on the run from the high-rise ghettos of South London to a new life in Malaga with nothing but a biscuit tin stuffed full of cash in his hand luggage. He has no idea that this delivery to the super-suave playboy and ex-con Charlie (Tamer Hassan) will change his life forever… The following evening its action all the way in FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. Directed by John Milius and starring Danny Glover and William Defoe the movie concerns two pilots in the Vietnam War are dissatisfied with the restrictions of the US Navy. Despite the orders of their superiors, they take matters into their own hands and plan an unauthorised air strike. Our first Classic Matinee channel premiere is on the 5th where we JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. Scottish professor Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason) accidentally discovers a map of sorts with directions on how to reach the centre of the Earth through an Icelandic crater. When the professor looks to his colleague Alec McEwen (Pat Boone) to verify his discovery, Alec turns on him and the two engage in a race to see who will reach the centre of the Earth first.

May 8th has the channel premiere of a superior sci-fi thriller IMPOSTER. Set in 2079, a famous weapons designer (played by Gary Sinise), is accused of being an alien designed “replicant” and goes on the run from the authorities. This science fiction psychological thriller is based upon the 1953 short story ‘Impostor’ by Philip K. Dick. HIGHLANDER III: THE SORCERER on the 10th is set in feudal Japan where Connor McLeod (Lambert) is unknowingly followed by an evil immortal, Kane (Van Peebles), who wants Connor’s head. They fight and Connor gets away while Kane is trapped in a cave. Now in the present, Connor’s peace is destroyed once again as the evil Kane is released from his imprisonment and the struggle of the Gathering begins again. Forward to the 17th where Jet Li experiences the KISS OF THE DRAGON. Liu Jian (Li), a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. Problem is that the French connection, is the head of the vice squad, and he intends to kill the drug lord and then frame Jian.

In GOLD on the 18th Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. The next Classic Matinee channel premiere is on the 19th as we catch a ride on a VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Contemporary drama on the 23rd in OUTLAW where returning veteran Sgt. Daniel Bryant (Sean Bean) finds himself trapped in a world of urban violence. At his wit’s end with rampant crime, Bryant recruits a group of men wronged by local thugs — including white-collar worker Gene Decker (Danny Dyer). With the off-the-record approval of veteran police officer Walter Lewis (Bob Hoskins), Bryant’s vigilante task force engages in a bloody struggle to take back the street.

Our big channel premiere has to be James Cameron’s THE ABYSS. After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in a remote part of the ocean floor, a team of divers on a prototype underwater oil rig are pressed into service by the U.S. Navy in a rescue attempt. When a hurricane cuts off contact between the surface and the underwater depths, the crew begin to see evidence of a strange, possibly alien intelligence at work. The Navy commander (Ed Harris) begins to grow increasingly paranoid about the mysterious alien life and threatens to use a recovered nuclear weapon to destroy everything. Much missed legend Gene Hackman stars in the nautical disaster movie THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. An all-star cast which also includes Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters and Leslie Nielsen heads this acclaimed film that set the standard for disaster movies. When the world’s largest ocean liner is capsized by a tidal wave, only ten passengers survive. Now, the race is on for these ten to make their way from the capsized top of the ship up to the bottom before they drown. We go BEHIND ENEMY LINES on the 31st. After pilot Lt. Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) is shot down in a Bosnian war zone, and tries to outrun a pursuing army, his commanding officer Reigert (Gene Hackman) finds his rescue operation hamstrung by politics, forcing him to go beyond his abilities to save Burnett.

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025

Carpenter, Verhoeven, Winner and Neil Marshall lead LEGEND charge of Channel premieres in April

Some of the our most iconic films will receive their Channel premieres on LEGEND this April, including John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, starring Kurt Russell, Micheal Winner’s DEATH WISH, starring Charles Bronson, Paul Verhoeven’s BASIC INSTINCT, starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, and Neil Marshal’s CENTURION, starring Michael Fassbender and Dominic West.

Other premieres include Brit revenge crime thriller VENDETTA, starring Danny Dyer, and John Badham’s DROP ZONE, in which Wesley Snipes freefalls into new heights of crime-fighting.

Plus, LEGEND presents six classic afternoon ‘matinee’ premieres, including the celebrated 1976 version of KING KONG, starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, the 1972 rousing version of TREASURE ISLAND, in which Orson Wells is outstanding as Long John Silver and historical drama THE SCARLET BLADE, most notable for a stirring performance from the ever-menacing Oliver Reed.

Let’s kick-off on the 5th with one of John Carpenter’s most iconic movies, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. 1997 – and Manhattan has become a walled prison for three million criminals where they are left to run loose. The plane carrying the American President crashes there and he is taken prisoner by “the Duke”. Sent in to rescue him from this land of hell is Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), former war hero turned criminal. To ensure he does not abandon his mission, two devices are implanted in his arteries, primed to blow him to pieces if he fails to return on time. Fast-forward to the 11th where Danny Dyer has a VENDETTA. A former special-ops soldier (Dyer) must stay one step ahead of the police and his former military unit while he hunts down and kills the gang who slaughtered his parents. Directed by Stephen Reynolds and co-starring Roxanne McKee. The following night we take to the skies in DROP ZONE. Wesley Snipes free-falls into the daredevil world of sky-diving to track down a cadre of techno terrorists. John Badham directs this chute-to-thrill adventure, which co-stars Gary Busey, Yancy Butler and Michael Jeter.

One of the most controversial movies ever made arrives on LEGEND this month, DEATH WISH is on the 18th. In this explosive story of revenge and urban violence, directed by Michael Winner, a New York architect, with liberal views, (Charles Bronson) has a change of opinion after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs in their apartment. The next night we travel back in time for CENTURION. A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack. Directed by Neil Marshall (Descent) and starring Michael Fassbender and Dominic West. Our final prime time premiere needs no introduction, BASIC INSTINCT. The mysterious Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a crime novelist, becomes a suspect when she is linked to the brutal death of a rock star. Investigated by homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), Catherine seduces him into an intense relationship. Meanwhile, the murder case becomes increasingly complicated when more seemingly connected deaths occur.

Looking at our matinee premieres let’s start on the 9th with ARIZONA BUSHWACKERS . During the American Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as the marshal of a small town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians. This entertaining Western is directed by Lesley Selander and stars Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland and Marilyn Maxwell. APACHE RISING on the 16th, follows a reformed man who now wears a sheriff’s badge named Jim Walker (Rory Calhoun) who faces Apache trouble as well as a cunning thief who is plotting to rob a stagecoach carrying gold. This Western, set in post-Civil War Arizona, also stars Lon Chaney Jr, and includes the last screen appearance of one-time cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown. A remake of a classic which itself gained a huge cult following has its premiere on the 18th, KING KONG. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin, this monster adventure, praised for its advanced special effects, is a remake of the 1933 film and stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange in her first film role.

TREASURE ISLAND on the 21st brings to life Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of pirates and hidden gold which begins in an inn when a mysterious sea captain, Billy Bones, collapses with terror and dies, but not before entrusting the inn owner’s son Jim with an oilskin bag, which contains a map of buried treasure. Jim shows it to Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesy and they decide to set sail in search of it, engaging, as cook, a one-legged seaman known as Long John Silver (Orson Wells). The 23rd has more historical drama in THE SCARLET BLADE. Set in 17th century England amid the bloody, head-on clashes between Cromwell’s Roundheads and the loyal Cavaliers of King Charles I, Royalists are determined to fight to the end. Set against this troubled background the drama surrounds two families, and the conflicts that they face against each other and themselves. Stars Lionel Jeffries and Oliver Reed. We end on the 30th with THE LAST COMMAND. Legendary Texan Jim Bowie (Sterling Hayden) attempts to come to a nonviolent compromise with Mexican President Santa Anna (J. Carrol Naish), but the negotiations soon turn sour. Consuelo de Quesada (Anna Maria Alberghetti), a Mexican girl with close ties to Jim, then warns him that Santa Ana’s men are planning to invade. So Jim, Davy Crockett (Arthur Hunnicutt) and a tiny crew of courageous Texans hide out in an abandoned mission, awaiting the violent confrontation.

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

LEGEND will take you on an exhilarating ride in March with ten channel premieres

It’s starry thrills all the way on LEGEND this March with ten channel premieres – from Terence Young’s THE JIGSAW MAN, starring Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier, Nick Love’s THE SWEENEY, starring Ray Winstone and Damian Lewis, to Taylor Hackford’s PARKER, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham.

Statham also pops up as a cage-fighting ex-cop in Boaz Yakim’s high-octane SAFE, whilst Jean-Claude Van Damme kickboxes his way out of trouble in LIONHEART and Denzil Washington and Mark Wahlberg are all guns blazing in buddy cop action comedy 2 GUNS.

Other adrenaline-fuelled premieres include action Western THE KID, starring Eithan Hawke, undersea drama STEEL SHARKS, starring Gary Busey, heist action thriller TRIPLE 9, starring Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck and Kate Winslet, and crime thriller 3 DAYS TO KILL, starring Kevin Costner.

Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into the Channel premieres of T.J. HOOKER (Seasons 4 & 5), and THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Season 3), which continue their popular runs throughout the month.

So let’s start on the 1st with the channel premiere of crime drama SAFE. Luke Wright (Jason Statham), a former elite NYC detective, is thrust into a life-or-death chase for Mei, a young Chinese math prodigy, and the complex safe combination she’s memorised. Wanted by both a ruthless Triad boss and the Russian mob, Luke and Mei must pull out all the stops to outwit, outshoot and outfight their underworld enemies. Jumping forward to the 7th and JCVD is back on LEGEND in LIONHEART. Lyon Gaultier (Van Damme) has deserted the Foreign Legion to come to America to help the family of his murdered brother. To support his loved ones, Lyon takes up bare-knuckle fighting to earn his living, but the Foreign Legion are hot on his trail. A cult 70s TV series gets an upgrade on the 8th, THE SWEENEY. Detective Inspector Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and his loyal partner George Carter (Ben Drew) are old school crime fighters enforcing the law in a modern underworld. Armed and dangerous, the Flying Squad have their own way of operating, and when an old enemy makes a re-appearance on the London crime scene, Regan and Carter will do whatever it takes to get the job done. Co-stars Damien Lewis, Hayley Atwell and Steven Mackintosh.

We ride to the wild, wild west on the 9th to meet THE KID. Rio, a young boy, (Jake Schur), is forced to go on the run across the American Southwest in a desperate attempt to save his sister (Leila George) from his villainous uncle (Chris Pratt). Along the way, he encounters Sheriff Pat Garrett (Ethan Hawke), on the hunt for the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid . Rio finds himself entwined in the lives of these two legendary figures and he is forced to choose which type of man he is to become, the outlaw or the man of valour. STEEL SHARKS on the 13th is an undersea thriller where a United States chemist is captured by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals, goes wrong when they are captured. Now they must wage a silent war beneath the waves. Stars Billy Dee Williams and Gary Busey. Denzel Washington (Safe House) and Mark Wahlberg (Contraband) lead an all-star cast in 2 GUNS on the 15th in an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unexpected partnership: Neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent.

A group of corrupt police officers are blackmailed into pulling off a seemingly impossible heist on the 20th in TRIPLE 9. They plot the murder of a rookie police officer in order to orchestrate a “999”, code for ‘officer down’, to pull off the heist across town. The movie stars Hollywood heavy hitters Casey Afleck and Woody Harrelson. 3 DAYS TO KILL on the 22nd focuses on Secret Service field agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) who has dedicated his life to the CIA but when he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness, he retires in order to reconnect with his estranged family. When the agency offers him a life-saving experimental drug in exchange for one final but extremely dangerous mission, he reluctantly agrees. Espionage and intrigue on the 27th as you piece together the clues in JIGSAW MAN. Sir Philip Kimberly (Michael Caine), the former chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and assigned back home by the KGB to retrieve vital intelligence documents. Escaping his Soviet handlers, he sets out for business on his own, leading M16 and the KGB on a hunt for him and the documents. We end our rundown on the 29th with the action-packed thriller PARKER. Parker (Jason Statham) is a hardened professional criminal who lives by his own code, but when he’s double-crossed by his crew and left for dead, it’s time for payback. Forming an unlikely alliance with a Pal Beach resident (Jennifer Lopez), they hatch a plan to track down the gang, hijack their latest heist and take everyone down.

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

LEGEND reveals action-packed line-up of Channel premieres for February 2025

From Stephen Soderbergh’s revenge-tinged actioner HAYWIRE, starring a kick-ass Gina Carano, to Michael Apted’s London-set spy-thriller UNLOCKED, starring a gun-toting Noomi Rapace, and Tony Maylam’s futuristic sci-fi horror gem SPLIT SECOND, starring serial killer hunter Rutger Hauer, LEGEND has scheduled ten nail-biting Channel premieres for a full-on February schedule.

Other adrenaline-fuelled premieres include action thrillers THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, BLACK EAGLE, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, BORN TO RAISE HELL, starring Steven Seagal and ROGUE, starring Megan Fox. British crime thrillers this month include the Channel premieres for WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, starring James McEvoy and Mark Strong and DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, starring Shaun Williamson and Geof Bell. Plus, there is the blood-soaked neo-Western THE WAY OF THE GUN, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro and Juliette Lewis.

Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into T.J. HOOKER, SIX MILLON DOLLAR MAN and WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, all of which continue their popular runs throughout the month.

Here’s everything you need to know:

Let’s start on the 1st where Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) is a black-ops agent for a government security contractor in HAYWIRE. After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead – by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins, who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Also stars Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas. We jump to the 7th where in a futuristic London where rising sea levels have placed large areas of the city under water. A burned-out cop (Rutger Hauer) is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders which point to a non-human killer in SPLIT SECOND. The following night in THE COLDLIGHT OF DAY Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, and Henry Cavill star in this pulse-pounding thriller about a man who’s plunged into an intergovernmental web of lies and secrets after his family is kidnapped. To get his family back alive, he must evade deadly secret agents and recover a mysterious briefcase.

More action is waiting for you on the 13th in BLACK EAGLE. One of The US Air Force’s most modern tactical aircraft, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashed in the sea near Malta. With Soviet forces in the vicinity, the CIA dispatches their best agent played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure their agent’s loyalty, they also take his two young sons into custody on a nearby island. We’re BORN TO RAISE HELL on the 14th where Bobby (Steven Seagal) is a tough as nails Interpol Agent assigned to a task force in Eastern Europe. His target is those that traffic guns and dope throughout the Balkans. When an investigation puts him on the trail of a Russian gun dealer, he learns how deadly life in Eastern Europe can truly be. A gripping tale on the 15th in THE WAY OF THE GUN as two small-time crooks, played by Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro, are convinced they’ll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis), but they soon run into trouble and they have to fight to keep their plan from unravelling amid rising time of bloodshed, mind games and greed.

Jumping ahead to the 20th and Megan Fox has gone ROGUE. As team leader O’Hara (Fox), is in charge of a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebel, and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter. A superior Brit thriller on the 22nd in WELCOME TO THE PUNCH. Former criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced returns to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky (James McEvoy) one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive. In UNLOCKED on the 27th, undercover CIA agent Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace), is charged with preventing an upcoming biological terror attack. But when violence erupts, Alice realises her CIA colleagues (Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, and Toni Collette) may be trying to eliminate her to cover their tracks. On the run, she must rely on the help of a tough cat burglar (Orlando Bloom) to survive, and to save the city from catastrophic devastation. We round off on the 28th with more Brit crime, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. A group of men check in early for their flight to Germany to support England at the World Cup. However, this is to establish an alibi for a heist at a London bank where millions of pounds in used notes are held, awaiting incineration. Will they be able to pull off the job and catch their plane? Stars Geoff Bell, Paul Nicholls, Justin Salinger and Shaun Williamson.

December 17, 2024January 14, 2025

LEGEND kicks off the New Year with thrilling round of premieres!

From cult classics like Roy Ward Baker’s LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES to legendary director Walter Hill’s BULLET TO THE HEAD and Sacha Bennett’s WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY, LEGEND has scheduled eleven channel premieres in January to kick off the New Year in thrilling fashion.

Other premieres include the classic mercenary thriller THE WILD GEESE, starring screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris, sci-fi actioner LOOPER, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, sniper thriller DEADLY TARGET, crime drama EMPIRE STATE, starring Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne, biographical disaster movie DEEPWATER HORIZON, high-octane action thriller WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, British black comedy crime thriller THE HITMAN’S APPRENTICE, starring Tim Roth and Jack O’Connell, and prison thriller ESCAPE PLAN, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Plus, fans of cult TV can tune into T.J. HOOKER, THE A-TEAM and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, all of which continue their popular runs throughout the month.

We (high) kick-off 2025 on the 3rd with one of the last great movies from Hammer, LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES. While lecturing in China, Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves. Co-directed by Hammer stalwart Roy Ward Baker and Hong Kong director Chang Cheh. The following evening we dodge a BULLET TO THE HEAD. An absolute classic on the 9pm as we release THE WILD GEESE. Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation and snatch its deposed President from a maximum-security army prison.

Sci-Fi thrills on the 11th with the time-bending thriller LOOPER. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich, and life is good…until the day the mob decides to “close the loop”, sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The thrills continue on the 16th as we witness a DEADLY TARGET. When Special Operative James Webster (Michael Jai White) returns home from duty to find his brother brutally murdered, his lethal training immediately kicks in. Fuelled by rage and a burning need to avenge his brother, he sets out to hunt down the perpetrators and nothing is going to stand in his way. The Rock finally comes to LEGEND on the 18th in EMPIRE STATE. Based on a true story, Dwayne Johnson stars as an NYPD detective trying to solve the biggest cash heist in U.S. history. Co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Michael Angarano.

DEEPWATER HORIZON on the 16th stars Mark Wahlberg in a powerful film inspired by a story of real-life heroes. For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day’s end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in US history. More big screen action on the 23rd in WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE. Bounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles cinema. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn’t trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists? The action continues on the 24th where we meet THE HITMAN’S APPRENTICE. When 19-year-old Adam (Jack O’Connell) agrees to do a day’s driving for his mum’s gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy (Tim Roth).

A dream team-up on the 25th, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger star in ESCAPE PLAN.Stallone stars as Ray Breslin, the world’s foremost expert on high-security prisons. But when he’s framed for a crime and thrown into a cutting- edge, ultra-secret facility he designed, he must recruit a fellow inmate (Schwarzenegger) to help him bust out of the escape-proof facility. Our list of channel premieres concludes on the 30th with WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY. Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang are back in this explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way. When the infamous 70s underworld legends are tasked with robbing Britain’s richest Banker, they are caught mid-heist and sentenced to do time in Britain’s toughest prison. Once inside, they encounter their old nemesis Slick Vic Farrow (Billy Murray) who is intent on murdering the gang. Also stars Ian Ogilvy, Lysette Anthony, Steven Berkoff and Julian Glover.

September 24, 2024September 26, 2024

LEGEND reveals ten action-packed premieres for October

Ten action-packed Channel premieres blast onto LEGEND this October, including Michael Mann’s virtuoso cat-and-mouse thriller HEAT, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, Steven Soderbergh’s cult crime comedy OUT OF SIGHT, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, Adrian Lyne’s erotic thriller UNFAITHFUL, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, David Fincher’s dangerous mystery thriller THE GAME, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn and John Badham’s cop action comedy THE HARD WAY, starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods.

Other primetime channel premieres are action thrillers DAYLIGHT, starring Sylvester Stallone, THE ENFORCER, starring Antonio Banderas and Kate Bosworth, Western THE VIRGINIAN, starring Ron Perlman, dazzling legal thriller RUNAWAY JURY, starring Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, and dark mystery thriller THE BOX, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.

There is also the Channel premiere of Series 3 of the hugely popular THE A-TEAM, weeknights from Monday 14, and the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE continues on weekends with the Channel premiere of Season 3.

Michael J. Fox stars in THE HARD WAY on the 5th as a pampered actor who unexpectedly becomes partnered with a hard-boiled New York City cop – brilliantly played by James Woods. Christina Ricci, Annabella Sciorra, LL Cool J, and Delroy Lindo co-star. We play THE GAME on the 6th where Michael Douglas stars as a man who receives an unusual birthday present: he’s chosen to participate in a live-action game that penetrates all aspects of his life. But when it begins to go out of control – can he escape? Sean Penn co-stars in this thrilling film by visionary director David Fincher. The following Saturday in HEAT a high-level thief, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) rose to the top of his game by being impossible to capture. L.A.P.D. Detective Vince Hanna (Al Pacino) always gets his man…and he wants McCauley. When McCauley plans one last heist. Hanna is at the ready to capture him.

From master storyteller John Grisham comes an electrifying thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz on the 13th, THE RUNAWAY JOURNEY. A jury fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member and a mysterious outsider who both offer to “deliver” the verdict to the highest bidder. Soon, lives and millions of dollars are at stake in this pulse-pounder filled with twists and turns. Forward to the 18th and we get to meet THE ENFORCER. Miami’s top mob enforcer Cuda (Antonio Banderas) sacrifices it all to tear down the criminal organisation he’s spent his whole life building up when he discovers his boss, Estelle (Kate Bosworth), is putting a young runaway’s life in grave danger. Now he has one last chance to make up for his past and find redemption before the mob hunts him down for his betrayal. On Saturday the 19th we take you underground looking for DAYLIGHT. Sylvester Stallone plays Chief Kit Latura, a disgraced emergency services worker who is given his chance at redemption when a New York city commuter tunnel begins to collapse. Latura must find a way inside and rescue the trapped commuters before it’s too late. Also stars Viggo Mortensen.

We get UNFAITHFUL on the 20th where Connie Sumner (Diane Lane) plays a middle-aged wife and mother, who has an affair with Paul, a handsome, younger Frenchman Paul (Olivier Martinez). When Connie’s husband, Edward (Richard Gere), becomes suspicious, he hires a private investigator. When his fears are confirmed, Edward confronts Paul in a decision that will come to haunt him. If you want gritty western drama we have the very thing for you on the 22nd, THE VIRGINIAN. OUT OF SIGHT plays in the 26th where career criminal Jack Foley (George Clooney) escapes from prison with his partner (Ving Rhames), the two soon find the US marshals hot on their trail. What Foley doesn’t expect is to fall in love with one of them – Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), a tough, no-nonsense cop. Also stars Albert Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, and Michael Keaton. We spend Halloween in the company of Cameron Diaz as she dares to open THE BOX. The year is 1976. Norma Lewis (Diaz) is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur (James Marsden), is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son… until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep (Frank Langella) and presents them with a life-altering proposition: the box.

July 27, 2024August 2, 2024

LEGEND reveals Saturday night slate of premieres for August

Saturday nights on LEGEND in August feature a slate of action thrillers including BUSHWICK, starring Dave Bautista, ARMED RESPONSE, starring Wesley Snipes and NIGHT HUNTER, starring Henry Cavill, Stanley Tucci and Ben Kingsley. Plus, there is epic adventure EDGE OF THE WORLD, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and psychological mystery thriller BACKTRACK, starring Adrian Brody and Sam Neill.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 3.

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Residing in the world of fantasy and science fiction, THE TWILIGHT ZONE has become the role model for TV anthologies, brilliantly exploring the foibles of humanity in metaphoric ways unseen in conventional drama. Casts have included Redford, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Carol Burnett, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin and Peter Falk The series were nominated for seven Emmy Awards and four Hugos and won three of each. Season 3 begins August 3rd. On the same day you can catch the channel premiere of BUSHWICK. Lucy (Brittany Snow) discovers her neighborhood, Bushwick, is under attack by black-clad military soldiers. When she is attacked, ex-Marine Stupe (Dave Bautista) intervenes, and the two are thrown together. As America declares war on itself, Lucy and Snow must fight to make it out of Bushwick alive.

Wesley Snipes stars in the channel premiere of ARMED RESPONSE on the 10th. When a team of highly trained operatives find the bloody corpses of a missing team in an isolated military compound, they begin investigating, but find themselves trapped inside. Soon encountering a strange supernatural phenomenon, it becomes clear that the compound itself is a sentient entity, harbouring deadly secrets of its own. The following week on the 17th, an all-star cast line up for NIGHT HUNTER. On the hunt for an elusive serial rapist and murderer, battle-hardened cop Marshall (Henry Cavill) meets vigilante duo Cooper (Ben Kingsley) and Lara (Eliana Jones) as they trap online predators. But when Lara is kidnapped, the hunt for the perpetrator leads to deeper mysteries.

We travel to the EDGE OF THE WORLD on the 24th which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Sir James Brook, the English adventurer who fought pirates and slavery to rule a kingdom in the jungles of Borneo in 1840. As he embarks on a lifelong crusade to end head-hunting, he is framed for murder and piracy charges. Also stars Dominic Monoghan. Sylvester Stallone is back on Legend on the 31st in the crime thriller BACKTRACE. After a bank heist goes wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) suffers a brain injury and develops amnesia. After being in a prison psychiatric ward for seven years he is encouraged by an inmate and a ward doctor to escape to be injected with a serum. This forces his memories to return. He tries to recover the stolen money whilst trying not to encounter a detective (Stallone), an FBI agent (Christopher McDonald) plus combat the very dangerous side-effects the drug creates.

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024

Bad Lieutenant heads up Channel premieres on LEGEND this July

Abel Ferra’s brilliant and controversial 70s neo-noir crime thriller BAD LIEUTENANT, featuring a magnetic performance from Harvey Keitel, gets its Channel premiere and heads up a summer season of action thrillers on LEGEND this July.

The exciting line-up includes the UK TV premiere of STAGECOACH: THE TEXAS JACK STORY, a sharp-shooting Canadian western based on the life story of the life story of outlaw Nathaniel Reed.

Other premieres are Lawrence Kasdan’s Western caper SILVERADO, starring Kevin Costner and Kevin Cline, Nick Love’s violent football drama THE FOOTBALL FACTORY, starring Danny Dyer, THE FAMILY (aka Violent City), an Italian / English crime thriller starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland, and badass survival thriller BRAVEN.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 2.

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We kick off on the 6th when we visit THE FOOTBALL FACTORY.Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a member of the Chelsea Firm, whose life revolves around booze, drugs and violence, but whose increasing nightmares make him question his choice of life. Shot in documentary style, this film shows a realistic view of football hooliganism. Also stars Neil Maskell. We’ve more action on the 13th where we’ll meet BRAVEN. When Joe Braven (Jason Momoa), a humble logger living along the mountainous U.S./Canada border, is confronted by a group of deadly drug runners. Little do the drug runners know that, aside from fighting for the lives of his family, he has an instinctive love of the kill.

THE FAMILY is one of the most acclaimed action movies of the 70s. After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man (Charles Bronsan) sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it. Directed by Sergio Sollima, this stylish crime thriller also stars Telly Savalas and, which music by Ennio Morricone. One of the most controversial movies of the 80s comes to Legend on the 20th, BAD LIEUTENANT. While investigating the death of a young nun, ‘The Lieutenant’, a corrupt cop (played by Harvey Keitel), tries to change his ways and find forgiveness. He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He’s a gambler, a thief, a junkie, a killer – as well as a cop. Now he’s investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.

We saddle up for wild west adventure on the 24th ready for SILVERADO. Four drifters – Paden (Kevin Kline), Emmett (Scott Glenn), Emmett’s brother Jake (Kevin Costner) and Mal (Danny Glover), arrive in Silverado, a small frontier town, and become unlikely heroes in a battle against a corrupt sheriff (Brian Dennehy) and a formidable gambling salon owner (Linda Hunt). A UK TV premiere is a remake of a classic, STAGECOACH. Nathaniel Reed has left the outlaw life and settled down with a family until a US Marshal with a grudge hatches a revenge plot that forces Reed out of retirement. Reed returns to his criminal ways and becomes known as Texas Jack; one of the most infamous stagecoach robbers in history. Based on a true story.

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024

Summer sizzles on LEGEND this June with a season of hot premieres

Nordic warriors, arch assassins, menacing mercenaries and avenging heroes invade the June schedule on LEGEND, with Channel premieres for William Friedkin’s star-studded military legal drama RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley, Viking Apocalypse fantasy HAMMER OF THE GODS, and muscle-men Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme get to one-up in submarine action thriller BLACK WATER.

Other Channel premieres include sinister survivalist thriller FUGITIVES, black-op thriller MAXIMUM CONVICTION, starring Stephen Seagal, stunningly visual historical action-drama SWORD OF VENGEANCE, Vietnam war thriller P.O.W. THE ESCAPE in which David Carradine is a one-man killing machine, and gritty assassin thriller AGE OF KILL, starring Martin Kemp. Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran.

Also, the cult fantasy / science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday and Sunday nights with the Channel premiere of Season 2.

We start on the 1st with FUGITIVES which was inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives. Directed by Shane Dax Taylor and starring Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang and Tricia Helfer. Then on the 7th in HAMMER OF THE GODS a young man transforms into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long-lost brother, Hakan the Ferocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom. A UK production, directed by Farren Blackburn and starring James Cosmo and Charlie Bewley. The following evening in MAXIMUM CONVICTION Tom Steele (Steven Seagal) is an operations genius. Manning (Steve Austin) is a weapons expert. Their next assignment is to safely deliver two female convicts to a top-secret military prison. But once the women have been incarcerated a squadron of ruthless, violent mercenaries targets them, intent on gaining high-risk information that could be lethal in the wrong hands. It’s now up to Steele and Manning to protect them at any cost.

SWORD OF VENGEANCE on the 14th is set where after years of slavery, a Norman Prince returns to the lost lands to seek revenge on his father’s murderer: his uncle, the ruthless Earl Durant. He gains the trust of a band of exiled farmers and leads them into battle against the Earl, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for revenge. Can there be any redemption for his deep-rooted rage and hatred, or has he lost his soul to vengeance? A British-Serbian production directed by Jim Weedon. The next night in P.O.W. THE ESCAPE, Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong. Directed by Gideon Amir and starring David Carradine. A star-studded Channel premiere on the 22nd in RULES OF ENGAGEMENT. Col. Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. But now, the country he served so well has put him on trial for a rescue mission that went terribly wrong. For his attorney, he has chosen Marine Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a comrade-in-arms who owes his life to Childers. Bound by duty and friendship, Hodges reluctantly takes the case, even as he begins to doubt the man who saved his life in Vietnam three decades ago.

Jumping to the 27th and AGE OF KILL Sam Blake (Martin Kemp) is running out of time. Living in the shadow of a botched mission that claimed an innocent victim, the disgraced special ops sniper is plunged into a world of darkness when his daughter is taken hostage by a mysterious terrorist. Out of options and with no one to turn to, Blake is forced to carry out their evil bidding and must assassinate six seemingly random targets within six hours on the streets of London. With his old unit closing in and his daughter at the mercy of a psychopath, every second counts. Our last Channel premiere is on the 29th, BLACK WATER. Suspected of attempting to sell information about CIA operatives around the world. legendary CIA agent Scott Wheeler (Jean Claude Van Damme) is imprisoned aboard a high-security navy submarine. Wheeler is interrogated before seizing his chance to escape his captors. Trapped on the ship and under ?re, Wheeler must befriend rookie agent Cassie (Jasmine Waltz) and German special forces operative Marco (Dolph Lundgren) in order to get off the ship alive.

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024

Crime and sci-fi adventures headline May 2024 premieres on LEGEND

Crime dramas, action thrillers and sci-fi adventures headline the May line-up on LEGEND, with UK TV premieres for prison drama A VIOLENT MAN, starring an outstanding Craig Fairbrass and UNCHAINED, a riveting crime thriller starring Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas and John Malkovich.

Channel premieres include two Dominic Cooper thrillers, STRATTON and THE ESCAPIST, which also stars Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes. Then there’s hard-hitting Brit gangster drama WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY, and superior sci-fi drama THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, starring Ashton Kutcher.

Plus, there are first time showings for the star-studded LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN, with Josh Harnett, Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman, the all-action sci-fi thriller DOUBLE TEAM, which teams Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mickey Rourke, and Italian WW2 film COMMANDOS, starring Lee Van Cleef.

Also, the cult fantasy/science fiction anthology series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, continues on Saturday nights with Season 2.

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A case of mistaken identity on the 3rd with LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN where Slevin Kelevra (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of New York City’s most rival crime bosses, ‘The Boss’ (Morgan Freeman) and ‘The Rabbi’ (Ben Kingsley). Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) and assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis), Slevin must get them before they get him. THE ESCAPIST on the 4th is set fourteen years into the life sentence of convict Frank Perry (Brian Cox) who plans to escape from prison after learning his estranged daughter has fallen ill. He develops an ingenious escape plan and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists – misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Also stars Dominic Cooper and Joseph Fiennes. Then we have paranormal drama on the 9th you have the chance to experience THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has lost crucial moments of his life, his childhood scarred by a series of terrifying events he can’t remember. When Evan realises that by reading his diaries, he can unlock the past and go back in time, he tries to reclaim the missing memories by tampering with the past… with unexpected and disastrous results.

Fast-paced action and adventure on the 11th in STRATTON. Stratton (Dominic Cooper) is a dedicated SBS operative working alongside MI5. After losing his American counterpart on a mission, Stratton meets Sumner (Connie Nielsen) from MI6, who happens to have a past with Barofski, the terrorist he was targeting. Sumner deploys a team to capture him, and it becomes a race against time for the team to track down Barofski before he unleashes terror on London. A true classic on the 17th in COMMANDOS which is set during World War II, where an Italian American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind enemy lines in North Africa. Stars Lee Van Cleef and Jack K. Friday the 17th contains a hard-hitting UK TV premiere, A VIOLENT MAN. The life of a violent and institutionalised prisoner (Craig Fairbrass) is turned upside down when his estranged daughter Claire (Zoe Tapper,) requests to meet him and Marcus (Stephen Odubola), a 19-year-old serving his first sentence, becomes his new cellmate.

Another UK TV premiere is happening on the 18th, UNCHAINED. When an attempted robbery goes wrong, three career criminals (Brody, Malkovich and Culkin) make a run for it, hiding out in an abandoned industrial building. The group are terrified to discover the bloodied presence of De Niro, an attack dog who’s been abandoned by his owner, gangster Blue (Antonio Banderas). Trying to keep their distance from this new threat, and with the law closing in, the group start fighting for their lives. WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY on the 24th is a contemporary take on a classic plot. When his brother is brutally murdered at the hands of a sadistic mob of youths, expat Richie (Ian Ogilvy) is forced to trade the sun-kissed calm of Spain for the savage streets of London and return to his gangster roots on a violent quest for vengeance. With the odds towering against him alone, Richie must reunite with his old firm and prepare for battle in their biggest face-off yet. Our final channel premiere is on the 25th, DOUBLE TEAM. Top counterterrorist, Jack Quinn (Claude Van Damme) wants to get out of the spy game. But on the eve of his final mission, he misses his target and loses everything in a split-second. Now, his wife and unborn son have become the target of terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke). Quinn must turn to the one man who can put him back in the game – weapons specialist Yaz (Dennis Rodman).