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, Tuesday 11 August 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House runs twice from 5pm, Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 8pm, then a new episode of Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 9pm and The Repair Shop at 10pm.

Quest Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Tuesday 11 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

What’s on Quest today

Tuesday’s daytime keeps to Quest’s usual factual formula: doubled-up hours rather than single episodes. Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters, Outback Opal Hunters and Shed And Buried each run in back-to-back pairs before the evening line-up begins at 5pm. Full times are in the schedule table above.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 5pm & 6pm

Two episodes run back to back, following lots through valuation and into the room for bidding. Family heirlooms turn up as often as they do outright bargains.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Two experts head out with a set budget, buying items to sell on at auction later in the same episode. Tonight’s route and final tally are new to viewers, even if the format isn’t.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Ant Anstead takes on another neglected car, working through mechanical faults that go deeper than the bodywork suggests. The focus stays on the engineering rather than the finished sale.

New: Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques — Quest, 9pm

A new episode tonight. Johnny Vegas runs his Wigan shop, buying and selling secondhand and antique pieces between customers who don’t always share his enthusiasm for the stock.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

Craftspeople in the barn take on another set of family heirlooms, restoring what’s broken before returning it with the story attached. The series remains a BBC production shown here in repeat.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm & 11:30pm

Two episodes close the night, each one following the manufacturing or engineering steps behind a chosen product. It’s short-form factual programming, half an hour at a time.

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?

Tuesday’s daytime runs through the usual factual mix before The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening with a double episode from 5pm. Antiques Road Trip and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic take 7pm and 8pm, then a new episode of Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques airs at 9pm and The Repair Shop repeats at 10pm. Two episodes of How Do They Do It? close the night 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

Tonight’s one new addition is Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 9pm, with Johnny Vegas back in his Wigan shop for another episode. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic holds the 8pm hour before it, and The Repair Shop follows at 10pm with its usual mix of restored family pieces. Earlier, The Yorkshire Auction House runs its usual double from 5pm, and Antiques Road Trip fills the 7pm slot.

Regulars will know what to expect from tonight’s Quest schedule; newcomers are better served starting with Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques.

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