A set of first look photographs and an preliminary trailer have been launched for Legends, the new true crime drama from the author of The Gold, Neil Forsyth.
It has additionally been confirmed that the collection, which stars Steve Coogan alongside Strike star Tom Burke, will premiere on Thursday 7 May – that means there may be lower than a month to attend.
The trailer kicks off with Coogan’s character, head of operations for Customs, Don, telling his crew that their ‘legend’ is their new id, in order to guard themselves and their households as they go undercover to infiltrate a number of the nation’s most harmful legal networks, and cease the heroin disaster threatening Britain in the early ‘90s.
The rest of the trailer sees plenty of gunfights, car chases and globe-trotting action. You can watch it right here, now.
In a quote, Forsyth said of the series, which is based on real events: “I’ve written shows in the past that are about well-known events. You then tell the story behind it, that isn’t so well known. This is unique, in that the work of the Legends is barely known at all. There was this core team of people that did all of this, and they did it almost without any public recognition.”
Alongside Burke and Coogan, the series also stars Hayley Squires, Tom Hughes, Aml Ameen, Jasmine Blackborow, Douglas Hodge, Johnny Harris, Gerald Kyd, Numan Acar, Charlotte Ritchie, Joshua Samuels, Kem Hassan and Thomas Coombes.
Burke plays Guy, a dissatisfied suitcase inspector and frustrated family man who feels he’s capable of more.
He said of his character: “His draw to the recruitment poster asking ‘Could you offer more?’ feels quite universal… There’s a sense that he’s by no means fairly finished what he wanted to do; a facet of him that he’s pushed down, or which has been pushed down by his surroundings.
“There’s an adrenaline junkie in there someplace. Perhaps any person else would simply go and do a bungee bounce, however he wants a bit greater than that. It’s prefer it’s one thing he’s bought to do, to have the ability to get on with the remainder of his life.”
The full synopsis for the six-part collection says: “In the early Nineteen Nineties, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was dropping its battle with unlawful drug smuggling throughout Britain’s borders. The answer was extraordinary. In a top-secret operation, a small crew of Customs workers have been despatched undercover. Their process – to infiltrate Britain’s most harmful drug gangs.
“But these were not trained spies. They were normal men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the UK, put through a basic training regime and tasked with building new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.”
Legends will stream on Netflix from Thursday 7 May 2026. Sign up for Netflix from £5.99 a month. Netflix can also be out there on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.
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