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 6 August 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House runs twice from 5pm before Antiques Road Trip takes 7pm. New episodes of Outback Truckers and Outback Opal Hunters follow at 8pm and 9pm, leading into The Repair Shop at 10pm. Full times are in the table below.

Quest Schedule: Thursday 6 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Thursday 6 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

What’s on Quest today

Quest schedules in blocks, not single episodes, and Thursday follows the same pattern. Two half-hour editions of How Do They Do It? open the day just after midnight, then Salvage Hunters runs twice through to 3am, when Salvage Hunters: The Restorers takes over. A pair of How It’s Made instalments carries the schedule to 5am. Salvage Hunters: The Restorers returns at 6am, two regular Salvage Hunters episodes follow, and Aussie Gold Hunters holds 9am and 10am. Outback Car Hunters runs twice from 11am, World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides takes 1pm with Henry Cole riding the Great Ocean Road towards Adelaide, and Shed And Buried fills 2pm and 2:30pm before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes 3pm. Find It, Fix It, Drive It holds 4pm, then The Yorkshire Auction House runs twice from 5pm ahead of the evening’s antiques run into The Repair Shop and a late double bill of How Do They Do It?.

The one break in the pattern is the hour of teleshopping from 5am, where Quest, like most free-to-air factual channels, quietly sells off the airtime nobody’s awake for.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 6 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The second of tonight’s two editions is titled “Three Generations Of Heirlooms”. A cancer survivor asks Angus to sell off family heirlooms to help fund a trip around the world, and a coin collection fetches well above expectations under the hammer.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Catherine Southon and Serhat Ahmet are on the penultimate leg of their tour, working Norfolk and Northamptonshire in search of a decent margin at auction. Same format, same modest budgets, but there’s an end-of-series feel to this one.

Outback Truckers — Quest, 8pm

A new episode, and plenty going wrong. Mike and Vinnie dodge disaster on the road, the Deen brothers wrestle a heavy load through mountain terrain, and Luke Majoor risks his rig on a track with a fearsome reputation.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 9pm

“Gold Coast Gamble” catches the Opal Whisperers selling opal they haven’t dug up yet, a bet that could go either way. The Bushmen are fighting mechanical trouble, and the Opalton Boulder Crew have two mines that have yet to pay off.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

Tonight’s strongest hour. Amanda and Julie take on a much-loved toy cat that’s over thirty years old, while electronics specialist Mark strips down a broken jukebox to see what’s salvageable. The objects are modest; what keeps the show going is who they belong to.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm and 11.30pm

Two half-hour instalments close the night: the world’s most expensive vinegar, cold-water diving gear and an upside-down-capable plane at 11pm, then super steel car parts and Australia’s sheep-shearing season at 11.30pm. Quick, factual, and done by midnight.

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?

Thursday evening on Quest opens with The Yorkshire Auction House at 5pm and 6pm, then Antiques Road Trip at 7pm. New episodes of Outback Truckers and Outback Opal Hunters follow at 8pm and 9pm, and The Repair Shop takes 10pm. Two editions of How Do They Do It? close 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

Tonight’s two genuinely new episodes are Outback Truckers at 8pm and Outback Opal Hunters at 9pm, both running to the format regulars will already know. The Repair Shop at 10pm is the stronger hour, pairing a well-loved toy cat with a broken jukebox and leaving the emotional work to Amanda, Julie and Mark rather than the objects. Before that, The Yorkshire Auction House runs twice from 5pm, its better story a cancer survivor selling family heirlooms to fund a trip round the world, and Antiques Road Trip takes 7pm for the penultimate leg of Catherine Southon and Serhat Ahmet’s tour.

Which is fine. That’s what Quest is for, and it’s honest about it.

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