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

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. Channel numbers are further down the page. Saturday 29 August 2026 is a motoring-heavy evening: four straight episodes of Shed And Buried run from 6pm to 8pm, then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic repeats its own 8am airing at 8pm. The Repair Shop takes over for two separate episodes across 9pm and 10pm, and Outback Opal Hunters closes out the night at 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Saturday 29 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Saturday 29 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Saturday’s daytime looks nothing like a weekday on Quest. It opens with a How Do They Do It? double from midnight, then Salvage Hunters runs a pair of hours from 1am before its Restorers spin-off takes the 3am slot. How It’s Made splits into two half-hour editions from 4am, followed by Teleshopping at 5am and a Massive Engineering Mistakes double from 6am. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic gets its first outing of the day at 8am, the same episode that comes back in primetime at 8pm, before Wheeler Dealers settles in for a six-hour run from 9am to 2pm across a mix of series old and new. MotoGP takes over at 3pm with the Aragon Sprint Race from MotorLand Aragon in Spain, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars turns to a 1960s Chrysler Imperial Crown at 4pm, and Sled And Buried: Christmas Special, Henry Cole’s one-off winter project filmed in Austria, closes out the afternoon at 5pm ahead of the evening’s main Shed And Buried run. Full times are in the schedule table above.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026.

Shed And Buried — Quest, 6pm to 8pm

Quest runs four straight episodes of Shed And Buried, series 7 episodes 17 to 20, and they follow on in order rather than jumping about the run. John Sheppard’s Allis-Chalmers crawler opens the block at 6pm, Ollie Turney’s neglected 1955 BSA follows at 6:30pm, a 1937 James motorcycle found in London takes the 7pm half hour, and at 7:30pm Dave Parkin parts with two machines at once, a Honda C90 and an ex-Soviet Gaz-69. It’s worth keeping this separate in your head from the earlier Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 4pm and the Austrian-set Sled And Buried: Christmas Special at 5pm, two differently named strands that sit either side of this run rather than inside it.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic returns to a three-wheeled BMW Isetta at 8pm, and if the engine trouble looks familiar, that’s because this is the same episode Quest showed at 8am. Anstead works through the Isetta’s mechanical faults with his usual unhurried patience rather than any real drama.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm and 10pm

Two unconnected episodes of The Repair Shop carry the 9pm and 10pm hours. The earlier one brings in a penny farthing bicycle alongside an old clocking-on clock, while the later hour deals with a barber’s pole and a piece of Nigerian artwork. Different objects, different owners, same formula that’s kept the show going since its move over from the BBC.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 11pm

The night finishes with Outback Opal Hunters, following the usual push-and-pull of digging for opal around Coober Pedy, where a promising seam can vanish as quickly as it appeared.

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 hold down most of the hours before mid-afternoon, all working the same basic appeal: someone spots value in a thing everyone else wrote off, then proves it by fixing it up or selling it on. It’s cheap to make and it repeats well, which is why there is so much of it.

Acquired documentaries and reality

The evenings lean on programming bought in from elsewhere. The Repair Shop is the obvious case, a series made for another broadcaster that has found a long second life here, but the later slots also take storm-chasing and survival documentaries such as In the Eye of the Storm.

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’s exactly the sort of thing you leave running in the background, and Quest schedules it mostly in the early hours.

How to watch Quest

Channel numbers

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

Quest 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 check your on-screen guide 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 want to catch The Repair Shop an hour later.

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?

Four episodes of Shed And Buried run back to back from 6pm to 8pm (series 7, episodes 17 to 20), then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic repeats its own 8am episode at 8pm. The Repair Shop holds the 9pm and 10pm hours with two separate episodes, and Outback Opal Hunters closes the night at 11pm. See the schedule table above for daytime listings in full.

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

Saturday is a heavier motoring day than usual for Quest. Wheeler Dealers holds a full six hours of the afternoon before MotoGP’s Aragon Sprint Race breaks it up at 3pm, and the two similarly-named specials either side of 5pm, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars and Sled And Buried: Christmas Special, are worth telling apart before the main run starts.

Primetime itself is almost entirely vehicles and repairs. Four Shed And Buried episodes run in strict order from 6pm, Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic repeats its own morning outing at 8pm, and The Repair Shop closes with two unrelated episodes across 9pm and 10pm before Outback Opal Hunters takes the night out at 11pm. It’s a schedule built on repetition rather than variety, but each of the four Shed And Buried episodes is a genuinely different job.

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