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, Sunday 9 August 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House opens at 6pm and Johnny Vegas follows at 7pm, before four consecutive hours of The Repair Shop from 8pm.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 9 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 9 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

What’s on Quest today

Sunday morning runs American Pickers at 6am, American Pickers at 7am, Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 8am, The Repair Shop at 9am. The afternoon carries Shed And Buried at 3:30pm, The Repair Shop at 4pm, before the evening schedule takes over.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 9 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

Angus Ashworth clearing a house and finding what will actually sell.

Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques — Quest, 7pm

Vegas and his crew buying, restoring and reselling, with rather more digression than the format strictly needs.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm and 11pm

Four hours back to back, drawn from four different series. If you want undemanding Sunday television with things being mended in it, the channel has cleared the whole evening for you.

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?

Sunday daytime runs American Pickers at 6am, American Pickers at 7am, Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 8am, The Repair Shop at 9am, before the evening schedule takes over.

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.

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