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. This Saturday, 15 August 2026, is a repeat-heavy day even by Quest’s standards: thirty slots across the schedule but only a dozen different titles, six of them Wheeler Dealers back to back through the morning and into early afternoon. The evening is where it earns its keep. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Saturday’s daytime opens overnight with a pair of Salvage Hunters hours and Salvage Hunters: The Restorers at 3am, then two episodes of How It’s Made before 5am. Massive Engineering Mistakes takes the 6am and 7am hours, and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic gets an early outing at 8am, the same episode that returns in primetime. From 9am it’s Wheeler Dealers for six hours solid, right through to 2pm, before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes 3pm and 4pm. 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 15 August 2026.

Shed And Buried — Quest, 6pm to 7:30pm

Shed And Buried fills six half-hour slots today, starting at 5pm, but it’s the four that run from 6pm through to 7:30pm that carry the evening into primetime. Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend work through sheds in Hampshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Shropshire, turning up old motorbikes, a diesel road roller and assorted farm gear along the way.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes the 8pm slot, the same Peugeot 205 GTI restoration that also opened Quest’s day at 8am. Ant chases down his own teenage dream car, only to find the low mileage hides some unwelcome surprises underneath.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm

The Repair Shop runs a double bill from 9pm. First up, Suzie and Julie tackle a battered leather rhinoceros while Dominic straightens out a rusty weathervane and Steve gets to work on a toy racing car. The 10pm follow-up brings a bicycle that hasn’t moved since 1983, a wheeled teddy bear and a Victorian helmet in need of attention.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 11pm

Outback Opal Hunters closes the night at 11pm. Flooding leaves the Cheals facing one of their toughest openings yet, the Whisperers head off after Yowah nuts, and Slim Pickings scramble to shift camp before time runs out on them.

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?

Saturday runs a run of six Shed And Buried episodes from 5pm before Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 8pm. The Repair Shop follows with a double bill at 9pm and 10pm, 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 Quest at its most repetitive, six of thirty slots given over to Wheeler Dealers alone. It’s the kind of scheduling that works fine as background viewing but gives little reason to plan an evening around it before 8pm.

That’s when it turns a corner into a solid three-hour run, even if the Ant Anstead episode is a straight repeat of the one that opened the day at 8am. Newcomers are best served picking it up at 9pm for the Repair Shop pairing.

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