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October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

Join the legends on LEGEND’s action-packed evening line-up

Live like a legend on LEGEND! From Monday 17th October, William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, David Hasselehoff and Chuck Norris take over the airwaves on LEGEND in a newly created weekday action-packed line-up from 5pm – 9pm.

This fantastic small-screen trip through the decades kicks off in the 60s with Star Trek: The Original Series, Gene Roddenberry’s iconic creation where we follow Kirk and his crew fighting galactic evil forces. The final frontier adventures continue at 6pm with 80s reboot Star Trek: The Next Generation before we land on earth with another 80s cult favourite Knight Rider, staring ‘The Hoff’, which continues in its 7pm slot. This is followed by 90s martial arts crime crusading favourite Walker, Texas Ranger, starring Chuck Norris.

The action starts at 5pm with the TV series that boldly goes where no other has gone before! Welcome to the 23rd century adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, a powerful interstellar spacecraft dispatched by Earth-based Starfleet Command to explore the galaxy. Kirk’s five-year mission is to seek out new life and new civilizations, bringing danger, extra-terrestrial drama and an array of deadly foes. In the second season, our intrepid crew encounter determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Then at 6pm we journey to the 24th century, when Earth is part of the United Federation of Planets, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) leads a new generation of Starfleet officers in the Enterprise NCC 1701-D spacecraft to seek out new planet and life forms in space. The hugely popular series, created by Gene Roddenbury, first aired in 1987 and ran for 178 episodes.

We’re firmly back on Earth at 7pm so belt up for Knight Rider. This high-octane series stars David Hasselhoff as a mysterious loner who fights crime with the aid of a super-advanced car equipped with artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T. An invaluable tool in combatting injustice in the shadowy underworld of America, it has the ability to think and talk, often offering up hilarious witticisms that are remarkably clever considering he’s a 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. In the second season, Michael, K.I.T.T. and gang return for more roadside adventures. Whether in a drag race or fighting Michael’s evil half-brother Garthe and his behemoth truck, this duo of man and super car are driving straight for thrills and excitement! At full speed! We meet Texas Ranger Cordell Walker at 8pm, one of the last old-fashioned heroes in the West, is a protective friend but a relentless foe who will stop at nothing to bring a criminal to justice. With the help of retired ranger C.D. Parker, partner James Trivette and A.D.A. Alex Cahill, Walker ruthlessly fights for justice. Inspired by the film Lone Wolf McQuade, this classic action series starring Chuck Norris, was first aired in 1993.

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

Legend reveals slate of horror, sci-fi and action premieres for October

October weekends will be haunting, horrifying and hair-raising as Legend presents a premiere-packed month of must-see movies, headed up by the Channel premiere of The Devil-Ship Pirates on the 1st. This rare Hammer swashbuckler, stars Christopher Lee as Captain Robeles, a Spanish privateer in charge of the galleon ‘Diablo’. When he realises that Drake has won the battle of Armada, Robeles escapes with his cut-throat crew to a lonely inlet on the Cornish coast. He manages to make the villagers believe that Drake has been defeated and he and his men begin to terrorize the locals. Another channel premiere is on the 28th, Darren Lynn Bousman’s twisted St. Agatha. Pushing the boundaries of “nunsploitation” the movie is set in 1950s Georgia, where a pregnant woman on the run from the police, seeks refuge in a desolate convent, only to be met with an unsettling and horrendous evil waiting on the other side.

Xavier Gens’ beautiful and dark Cold Skin on the 31st takes us to the edge of the Antarctic circle, where a steamship is approaching a desolate island. On board is a young man, poised to take up the post of weather observer, to live in solitude far from civilization. But on shore he finds no trace of the man he has been sent to replace, just a deranged brute in the lighthouse who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. Then night begins to fall… On the 8th the stirring action thriller Boiling Point, starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper comes to Legend.Making money is to print it. That’s why everyone wants to get in on the act. As the “money men” blow away their rivals, they’re sending smoke signals out to the cops. Cornered in a hotel stake-out, the mobsters have to choose between rubbing out their biggest rival and saving their own skins. The movie also stars Viggo Mortensen.

There’s are also a first time showing for action thriller Mother Lode on the 29th, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. A couple of adventurers go into the wilds of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague, but when their plane crashes they find themselves at the mercy of a crazy miner who has lived in isolation searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. Kim Basinger stars. Also new to Legend is the first big screen outing of a TV classic, Sweeny! on the 15th. When one of his informants is murdered, Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) is drawn into a deadly political game. He is soon a marked man and, after being framed, is suspended from duty. This doesn’t stop him and Detective Sergeant Carter (Dennis Waterman) searching for the truth. If you fancy a white-knuckle ride then Vehicle 19 on the 22nd is for you. A parolee unwittingly gets in the wrong rental car at Johannesburg airport with terrifying consequences. He soon realises that not only is he a stranger in inhospitable surroundings, but is the target of an entire police force that will use any means necessary to stop him and the tied-up female passenger he discovers in the back of the vehicle.

Plus, there are two channel premieres which are heading up the popular Vintage Vault strand. Nightmarish chiller Fiend Without A Face on the 23rd concerns a scientist whose thoughts materialise as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.This independently made British black-and-white cult classic was directed by Arthur Crabtree and stars Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. Then on the 30th the blood-thirsty First Man Into Space. Brash U.S. Navy test pilot, Lieutenant Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth’s atmosphere on test flight Y-13, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return to earth as a blood-drinking monster. Directed by Robert Day, it stars Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, and Robert Ayres.

The vault is unlocked on Sunday October 2nd with subterranean monster thriller The Mole People. This is paired with Nathan Juran’s Ray Harryhausen-inspired 20 Million Miles To Earth. The following Sundays include the beastly mutant classic The Deadly Mantis, Fred F. Sears’ saucer-invading caper Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, spell-binding horror fantasy The Abominable Snowman, The Monolith Monsters, in which the world is attacked by thirsty giant crystals, the brilliant Hammer horror, The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) and the hypnotically sensual Dracula (1958).

And the second season of hit series Knight Rider, in which Michael, K.I.T.T. and gang return for more roadside adventures, has its channel premiere.

August 21, 2022August 21, 2022

Legend reveals slate of thrilling premieres for September!

Friday and Saturday nights in September on Legend are premiere-packed, headed up by the UK TV premiere of Doug Liman’s (director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow), deadly psychological thriller The Wall, staring John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. There are also Channel premieres for horror-mystery The Final Wish, dark comedy vampire horror The Shed, Walter Hill’s neo-noir crime thriller The Driver, starring Sam O’Neill and Bruce Dern and Sam Peckinpah/s gritty action-comedy Convoy, starring Kristofferson and Ali McGraw. Plus, Iron Eagle II and Iron Eagle III are on the weekend menu, both starring Louis Gossett Jr.

And the popular strand The Vintage Vault continues, once again presenting double-bills of classic sci-fi and horror films every Sunday night. The season premieres on Sunday September 4th with Bride Of Frankenstein, the celebrated sequel to the 1931 classic with Boris Karloff reprising his role as the monster. This is paired with Christy Cabanne’s frightening chiller masterpiece The Mummy’s Hand. Then on Sunday September 11th we have Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, featuring the original Wolfman, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein’s monster, followed by The Invisible Man, in which Claude Rains delivers a remarkable performance in his screen debut.

Sunday September 18th brings us pulp-horror favourite Tarantula twinned with Revenge Of The Creature, the sequel to Universal’s fabulously successful The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Finally, on Sunday September 25th mutant octopus-rampaging favourite It Came From Beneath The Sea hits our screens, followed by the heart-pounding Alien invasion classic It Came From Outer Space.

Plus, the immortal Knight Rider is back! The cult TV series starring the legendary David Hasselhoff receives its channel premiere on Legend.

Here’s all the info you need:

Fans of high-flying action will be buckled-up ready to go on the 3rd and the 10th for Louis Gossett Jr’s finest moments, Iron Eagle II and Iron Eagle III. In the first sequel The United States and the Soviet Union must work together to destroy a nuclear missile. The real challenge in this mission is to get the pilots from both countries to work as a team. They are more used to fighting each other rather than alongside each other. But when Colonel Charles “Chappy” Sinclair (Gossett Jr.) and the Soviets discover that an American General may sabotage their mission and his plans may kill hundreds of innocent people, they finally unite. Then in the second sequel Chappy teams with three retired maverick fighter jocks from England, Germany and Japan as they fly souped-up World War II airplanes to combat a ruthless German drug lord and his high tech weaponry in the lawless South American jungles.

A UK TV premiere on the 16th brings to your screens a tension-packed war drama, The Wall. U.S. Sergeants Allen Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals, Godzilla, Avengers: Age of Ultron) and Shane Matthews (WWE’s John Cena) are investigating a pipeline construction site in a desert of Iraq. When he heads into open space, Matthews is shot by an Iraqi sniper, leaving Isaac to take cover and form a rescue plan behind an unsteady, crumbling wall. What unfolds is as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship in the toughest of conditions. Another Walter Hill classic comes to Legend on the 17th, The Driver. Ryan O’Neal plays a get-away driver. Bruce Dern plays the relentless detective who sets out to trap him and Isabella Adjani plays the mysterious gambler who goes along for the thrill of the game. It is a tale of confrontation between two men of iron will. Each of the characters is the best at what they do; each is committed to a lifestyle that thrives on competition. Who will come out on top?

If you want some chills then we dare you to enter The Shed on the 23rd. When you’re the outcast, the underdog; they all think they can mess with you. But what happens when you have a vampire in your shed? The game changes and everyone becomes a target. Make a choice, who lives, who dies? A movie which truly defined the era on the 24th, Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, and Ernest Borgnine star in Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy. A mighty convoy of dust-raising trucks heads for a State Line in south-western America. The massive collection of vehicles of all shapes and sizes is led by ‘Rubber Duck’, a legendary trucker who has gathered this vast army together in protest against police corruption, federal and state laws and shady politicking. In The Final Wish on the 30th you need to be careful what you wish for because every wish comes at a price. Following the death of his father, Aaron (Michael Welch) returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother (Lin Shaye) pack up his father’s belongings. Discovering one item of unknown origin, Aaron soon comes to believe his wishes are coming true but the more wishes he makes the more danger he puts those closest to him in. What will happen when Aaron makes ‘The Final Wish’?

A series which needs no introduction comes to Legend on the 5th, Knight Rider. This fantastic cult-classic stars David Hasselhoff as a mysterious loner who fights crime with the aid of a super-advanced car equipped with artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T.. An invaluable tool in combatting injustice in the shadowy underworld of America, It has the ability to think and talk, often offering up hilarious witticisms that are remarkably clever considering he’s a 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. Great action! Great fun! Great car!

The Vintage Vault line-up includes; Bride of Frankenstein and The Mummy’s Hand on the 4th, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman and The Invisible Man on the 11th, Tarantula and Revenge of the Creature on the 18th, and to round off the month It Came from Beneath the Sea and It Came from Outer Space on the 25th.

August 2, 2022August 4, 2022

Legend reveals slate of sizzling summer premieres and more delights from The Vintage Vault

Horror Channel continues its transformation into new channel Legend with a heady mix of classic horror, sc-fi, thriller, action, fantasy and suspense titles.

Saturday nights on Legend in August get trigger-happy, with four action-packed premieres, including the UK TV premiere of Code Name: Geromino, John Stockwell’s explosive military thriller starring Tom Sizemore. There are also channel premieres for An Eye For An Eye, Michael D. Moore’s classic Western revenge drama starring Robert Lancing and Slim Pickens, Buffalo Bill & The Indians, Robert Altman’s acclaimed revisionist Western starring Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Geraldine Chaplin and Harvey Keitel, and Peter Yate’s superior crime thriller The Robbery, which stars Stanley Baker, Frank Finlay and Barry Foster.

And the popular stand The Vintage Vault continues, once again presenting double-bills of classic sci-fi and horror films every Sunday night. The vault is unlocked on Sunday August 7th with The Changeling, Peter Medak’s classic supernatural horror starring George C. Scott. This is paired with The Brood, David Cronenberg’s early body-horror shocker, which stars Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. The following Sundays boast some of the greatest genre movies of all time – John Carpenter’s The Fog, and Joe Dante’s werewolf cult hit The Howling, David Cronenberg’s body horror masterpiece Scanners, Tony Maylam’s The Burning, John Carpenter’s brilliant body-mangling monster horror The Thing and the equally brilliant Videodrome Croneberg’s cult-classic with acclaimed performance from James Woods and music legend, Deborah Harry.

Here’s a run down of some of the movies waiting for you during August:

In the Channel Premiere of An Eye for An Eye on the 6th a man called Talion is on the trail of Ike Slant and his gang, responsible for the murder of his wife and child. He teams up with Benny, a youthful bounty hunter. During a fight with the killers, Benny is blinded and Talion’s hand shattered. In order to overcome their handicaps, Benny learns to shoot according to Talion’s shouted command. There’s more western drama with Robert Altman’s satirical movie Buffalo Bill & The Indians on the 13th which stars Paul Newman, Joel Grey and Kevin McCarthy. In 1885, Buffalo Bill’s name is the symbol of heroism in America. His famous “Wild West Show”, which is known all over the country, is organised by his brilliant manager, Nate Salsbury. But when he is off stage, Buffalo is a show-off who drinks and continually seeks new mistresses, while trying to consolidate his prestige. When he calls Sitting Bull for help to improve his show, he begins to get into trouble…

A classic British heist drama on the 20th, Robbery. Based on the infamous Great Train Robbery, we follow Paul Clifton (Stanley Baker) as he forms a team to carry out an ambitious heist of cash from a government mail train traveling from Scotland to London. Everything goes to plan until the very last moment when a series of unforeseen events conspire against them and the police manage to capture the gang. Clifton however tries to escape the country using a counterfeit identity. If you want action of a more contemporary nature then Code Name: Geronimo on the 27th is for you. Seal Team 8 must fight their way through the Congo to defuse one of the greatest threats the world has ever known.

The Vintage Vault continues throughout August, on the 7th paranormal fear with The Changeling and The Brood, classics from the masters on the 14th with John Carpenter’s The Fog and Joe Dante’s The Howling, VHS memories will come flooding back on the 21st with Scanners and The Burning and the finel double-bill on the 28th are two of the finest, John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Welcome to Legend

Legend is the channel for people who want to indulge in their favourite genre classics.

From action to thriller, suspense to sci-fi, we guarantee to keep everyone on the edge of their seat.

Legend is available on Sky channel 148, Virgin Media channel 192, Freeview channel 69 and Freesat channel 137.