By James Whittington, 24th September 2024
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.
Related show tags: THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE A-TEAM, HEAT, OUT OF SIGHT, UNFAITHFUL, THE GAME, THE HARD WAY, DAYLIGHT, THE ENFORCER, THE VIRGINIAN, RUNAWAY JURY, THE BOX MORE FEATURES RAMBO, ZORRO and CONAN join LEGEND schedule for September Posted on 21st August 2025
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