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. Tonight, Thursday 15 October 2026, is The Yorkshire Auction House at 6pm, Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, Outback Truckers at 8pm, Aussie Gold Hunters at 9pm and The Repair Shop at 10pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Thursday 15 October 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Thursday 15 October 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

Also on TV tonight at 9pm

• BBC One: The Celebrity Traitors (from 8pm)
• ITV1: Long Lost Family
• BBC Two: Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
• Channel 4: Our Tiny Islands (from 8pm)
• Channel 5: Love Nature
• Film4: Wrath of Man
• E4: Gogglebox
• ITV2: Big Brother
• ITV3: Vera (from 8pm)
• ITV4: Benidorm

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What’s on Quest today

Overnight is two How Do They Do It? episodes at midnight and 12:30am, Salvage Hunters at 1am and 2am and Salvage Hunters: The Restorers at 3am. Two half-hours of How It’s Made follow from 4am, with Teleshopping at 5am.

Salvage Hunters: The Restorers starts the day at 6am, with two more Salvage Hunters episodes at 7am and 8am, followed by two Aussie Gold Hunters and two Outback Truckers. Antiques Road Trip is on at 1pm, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 2pm, two Shed And Buried half-hours from 3pm, Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 4pm and Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House at 5pm.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 15 October 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

Angus and the team sell a collection of Ferrari memorabilia that has spent years in an attic. It is the fifth episode of the first series.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Natasha Raskin Sharp and Raj Bisram shop their way round Norfolk, with a gavel and a vintage train set among the things that catch their eye. This is series 20, episode 24.

Outback Truckers — Quest, 8pm

Steve Grahame drives the Great Central Road with his grandson alongside him, and elsewhere on the network a driver copes with a blown tyre and another with an oversize load. It is a new episode, series 11, episode 13.

Aussie Gold Hunters — Quest, 9pm

Brent and Cayden battle a run of mechanical breakdowns to keep the German Gully mine going, and a new lease turns up something unpleasant. New episode, series 11, episode 6.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

A mid-century coffee table, a wind-up toy panda and a coconut scraper all go on the workbench. This is a repeat of the BBC series.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

Two half-hours close the night. The first covers how an axe is forged, how bags are made and how fast lifeboats are built. The second, at 11:30pm, moves on to Wensleydale cheese, paintbrushes made from pig hair and the distilling of eucalyptus oil.

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?

The Yorkshire Auction House is on at 6pm and Antiques Road Trip at 7pm. Outback Truckers is at 8pm, Aussie Gold Hunters at 9pm and The Repair Shop at 10pm, with How Do They Do It? from 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

The night opens on auctions and antiques, with The Yorkshire Auction House and Antiques Road Trip, then turns to Australia for two hours of trucking and prospecting. The Repair Shop at 10pm is the gentlest hour of the night. Outback Truckers and Aussie Gold Hunters are both flagged new, but they are mid-series episodes of long-running shows, so neither is a launch.

Daytime is Salvage Hunters, gold-prospecting and trucking shows and a Shed And Buried run, so it suits dropping in.

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