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. Sunday 16 August 2026 is an antiques-and-restoration day: The Repair Shop airs eight times in total, four hour-long episodes through the early afternoon and four more stacked back to back from 8pm to midnight. Around that, Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House, The Yorkshire Auction House and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques fill most of the rest of the day. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 16 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 16 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Sunday’s daytime opens overnight with Outback Truckers at midnight, then two hours of Mysteries Of The Deep and NASA’s Unexplained Files at 3am. How It’s Made splits into two half-hour episodes either side of 4:30am, followed by an hour of Teleshopping split the same way from 5am. American Pickers holds the 6am and 7am hours, then Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques gets an early outing at 8am, the same episode that repeats in primetime. Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House runs 9am and 10am, before The Yorkshire Auction House takes over at 11am and again at noon, and The Repair Shop then fills the whole of the early afternoon, four episodes running 1pm to 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, Sunday 16 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House closes out Quest’s afternoon of saleroom programming at 6pm. It follows a family-run auction house through valuation day and into the sale itself, the usual mix of hopeful estimates, surprise finds and lots that go for more, or less, than anyone expected.

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

At 7pm Johnny Vegas swaps stand-up for shopkeeping, hunting out stock for his own antiques business and weighing up whether a piece is worth what a dealer wants for it. It’s a lighter hour than the auction show before it, driven more by Vegas’s own enthusiasm than by a saleroom clock.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm to midnight

Quest hands the rest of the night over to The Repair Shop, running four episodes back to back from 8pm through to midnight. Craftspeople in the barn workshop take on whatever family heirlooms turn up on a given day, and the show has always leaned on the stories attached to those objects as much as the mending itself. A four-hour run like this is about as close as Quest gets to a Sunday-night event.

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’s primetime opens with The Yorkshire Auction House at 6pm, then Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 7pm. The Repair Shop takes over from 8pm, running four episodes straight through to midnight. 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

Sunday’s schedule is built around auctions and restoration, with barely a car in sight until the small hours. The Yorkshire Auction House and Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House cover most of the daytime saleroom slots, and The Repair Shop turns up eight times across the day, four of them stacked into a straight run from 8pm to midnight.

That evening block is the reason to tune in. It’s familiar, comfortable television, and running four episodes together gives it more weight than the daytime showings manage. Newcomers are better off starting at 8pm and staying put, since nothing earlier in the evening asks for much close attention.

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