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

Updated: 14 July 2026

Quest is Warner Bros. Discovery’s free-to-air factual channel, built around cars, engineering and the kind of programming where someone always ends up covered in grease or sawdust. It moved from Freeview channel 12 to channel 17 in January 2026 as part of a wider reshuffle of the broadcaster’s UK channels, and it’s free on every major platform with no subscription required. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House rounds off the day at 6pm and Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm, before Shed And Buried settles in for a run of its own at 8pm and 8:30pm and the Classic Cars spin-off takes 9pm. The Repair Shop brings its BBC pedigree to 10pm, and a How Do They Do It? double bill closes the schedule. Channel numbers for every platform are further down the page.

Quest Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 17.

What’s on Quest today

Tuesday opens with a How Do They Do It? double bill at midnight, then two hours of Salvage Hunters before Salvage Hunters: The Restorers takes 3am. How It’s Made runs its usual two half-hour instalments from 4am, and after teleshopping the day proper starts at 6am with Salvage Hunters: The Restorers again, followed by two hours of Salvage Hunters proper. Aussie Gold Hunters holds 9am and 10am, then Outback Crystal Hunters carries the late morning into noon. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 1pm, Shed And Buried fills the early afternoon in half-hour bursts, and Find It, Fix It, Flog It closes out 4pm before The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening run described below.

Quest Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

Yorkshire auctioneers Angus Ashworth and the Golding brothers put another batch of lots under the hammer, with sellers hoping their inherited furniture and curios fetch more than the reserve. It’s the channel’s regular lead-in to the evening, and series 4 episode 1 keeps the format exactly as viewers left it.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Two dealers, one road trip, and a modest budget to find bargains at shops and fairs before testing their nerve at auction. It’s a gentler watch than the Yorkshire saleroom that precedes it, built more on the banter between experts than any single big win.

Shed And Buried — Quest, 8pm

Bangers rescued from fields, barns and back gardens get assessed for whether they’re worth saving. Series 4 episode 3 sticks to the format that’s carried the show through several years of episodes: find it, price it, decide if it’s worth the graft.

Shed And Buried — Quest, 8:30pm

A second half-hour straight after, episode 4 of the same series.

Shed And Buried: Classic Cars — Quest, 9pm

Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend swap the usual barn-find hunt for a specific project: a Mini Clubman racing car dug out of a Surrey garage. Whether it can be returned to something resembling its old track form is the question the hour sets out to answer, and the spin-off gives the pair more room to dig into the mechanics than the flagship show usually allows.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

Sonnaz Nooranvary tackles a battered old wooden barber’s chair that once stood in an Essex shop, while horologist Steve Fletcher and metalworker Dominic Chinea take on a family heirloom of their own. It’s an acquired BBC series rather than a Quest original, but the format travels well: the appeal has always sat with the objects’ stories as much as the craft that goes into fixing them, and that holds regardless of which channel it’s airing on.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

A factory-floor look at how everyday products get made, series 11 episode 18.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11:30pm

A second episode runs straight after, closing out the schedule before the night’s repeats begin.

What kind of shows are on Quest

Motoring, restoration and workshop shows

The backbone of Quest’s schedule is vehicles. Wheeler Dealers, Salvage Hunters, Shed and Buried and Chasing Classic Cars between them fill most of the daytime hours, all built around the same basic appeal: watching someone spot value in something everyone else has written off, then prove it by fixing it up or selling it on. It’s cheap to produce, endlessly repeatable, and evidently still popular enough that Quest schedules little else before mid-afternoon most days.

Acquired documentaries and reality

Beyond the workshop shows, Quest fills its evenings with factual and reality programming acquired from elsewhere, The Repair Shop being the clearest example of a series made for another broadcaster finding a long second life here. Storm-chasing, engineering and survival documentaries like In the Eye of the Storm round out the later slots once the day’s motoring shows have run their course.

How It’s Made and everyday engineering

How It’s Made is the odd one out on the schedule, a factory-floor staple that’s run in various forms for decades, taking a few minutes at a time to show how ordinary objects get manufactured. It works as well as background television as it does anything else, and Quest leans on it heavily in the early hours.

How to watch Quest

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Quest across the main UK television platforms:

Quest is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. It moved from Freeview channel 12 to channel 17 in January 2026, so retune your box if you’re still seeing the old number. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can vary slightly by region, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if these don’t quite match.

Streaming online

Quest streams live and free through discovery+, available as an app on smart TVs, phones and tablets, and via web browser at discoveryplus.com. Registering for a free account gets you live access to Quest and its sister channels, plus 30 days of catch-up, all supported by adverts. A paid discovery+ tier exists too, and comes free with Sky TV packages from £15 a month, but it isn’t needed just to watch Quest live.

Quest +1 and sister channels

Quest +1 repeats the schedule an hour behind, on Freeview channel 70 and Sky channel 244. It’s the one to reach for if you’ve missed the start of a Wheeler Dealers marathon, or would rather catch The Repair Shop a little later once the washing-up’s done.

Quest sits inside a wider family of Warner Bros. Discovery free-to-air channels. Quest Red, on Freeview channel 40 and Sky channel 149, shares the reclamation-yard DNA but skews towards a female audience with reality and lifestyle shows like My 600-lb Life and Say Yes to the Dress. Really, another channel in the same stable, sits alongside it on the Freeview line-up with its own mix of true crime and factual programming.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on Quest tonight?

The Yorkshire Auction House closes the day at 6pm, Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm, then Shed And Buried holds 8pm and 8:30pm before the Classic Cars spin-off takes 9pm. The Repair Shop follows at 10pm, and a How Do They Do It? double bill sees out the night.

What channel is Quest on Freeview?

Channel 17. It moved there from channel 12 on 13 January 2026 when Warner Bros. Discovery reshuffled its free-to-air channels. Retune your box if you’re still seeing the old number.

Is The Repair Shop a Quest original show?

No. It’s a BBC production made by Ricochet, first shown on BBC One. Quest broadcasts it in repeat, which is why it turns up so often in the evening schedule here.

Can I watch Quest online for free?

Yes. It streams live at discoveryplus.com and through the discovery+ app; a free account with adverts gives you the live channel and 30 days of catch-up.

Is Quest free to watch?

Yes, entirely free to air on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat, with the usual advert breaks but no subscription fee.

Verdict

Tuesday’s schedule leans on The Repair Shop to do the heavy lifting. The early evening moves briskly through The Yorkshire Auction House and Antiques Road Trip, an hour each, before Shed And Buried settles in for two regular episodes and the Classic Cars spin-off gives the format a change of scenery at 9pm.

That run into the acquired BBC hit at 10pm is the strongest hour of the night, trading barn finds and workshop chat for the gentler, story-led repairs the show’s built its reputation on. The closing How Do They Do It? double bill is undemanding factual filler, fine as background noise but not much more. It’s a coherent evening rather than a spectacular one, and exactly what regular Quest viewers will expect.

Related: What’s On TV Tonight | Really TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide