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. Monday 17 August 2026 runs a salvage-and-workshop daytime, with doubled-up episodes of Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters and Outback Opal Hunters carrying the morning before The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening. The headline booking is a new episode of Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm, with a fresh edition of BSB Highlights closing out the night at 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Monday’s daytime opens overnight with The Repair Shop at midnight, then two episodes of Mike Brewer: Born Dealer back to back from 1am and Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car at 3am. How It’s Made splits into two half-hour episodes from 4am, followed by an hour of Teleshopping from 5am. Salvage Hunters: The Restorers takes the 6am hour before regular Salvage Hunters runs two more episodes from 7am. Aussie Gold Hunters holds the whole of 9am, then Outback Opal Hunters takes over for a double bill from 11am. The Repair Shop returns at 1pm, Shed And Buried splits into two half-hour episodes from 2pm, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars follows at 3pm, and Find It, Fix It, Drive It closes out the afternoon at 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, Monday 17 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 5pm

Angus Ashworth’s saleroom series opens the evening with two episodes shown back to back, easing the schedule out of the afternoon without much of a gear change. It’s built for company in the background rather than close attention.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

A new run of the long-running format gets under way at 7pm, sending its pair of experts off with a set budget to gamble on finds at fairs and shops before testing their nerve at auction. The format has barely shifted across its many years on air, which is rather the point of it.

Shed And Buried: Classic Cars — Quest, 8pm

Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend narrow their shed-clearing format down to cars alone, and tonight’s find centres on a Triumph TR3a dug out from under years of accumulated junk. Whether it’s worth the effort of dragging out is, as ever, the whole show.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 9pm

Quest’s headline booking tonight is a brand new episode of Ant Anstead’s restoration series, now well into its third season after the production order was extended earlier this year. Tonight’s project is a Mark 1 Cortina turned up in Scotland, and the show’s appeal has always sat less with the technical rebuild than with Anstead’s evident soft spot for cars other collectors have given up on. It is the one hour tonight worth planning around rather than half-watching.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

The barn regulars take another hour at 10pm, working through whatever objects and family stories have queued up for restoration this week. Quest has run this acquired BBC series so consistently that it now feels as much a fixture of the channel as anything made in-house.

BSB Highlights — Quest, 11pm

The night closes with a new edition of the British Superbikes highlights package, covering round seven of the season from Thruxton. It’s a tidy way to catch up on the racing weekend without sitting through the full live coverage.

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?

Monday’s primetime opens with a Yorkshire Auction House double bill from 5pm, then Antiques Road Trip at 7pm and Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic brings a new episode at 9pm, The Repair Shop follows at 10pm, and a new edition of BSB Highlights 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

Monday’s schedule leans harder on cars and salvage than most days on Quest, with Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters and Outback Opal Hunters all running in doubled-up blocks through the morning before the auction and workshop shows take the afternoon.

The evening is the stronger draw. A new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm is the one booking worth planning the night around, sitting between Antiques Road Trip and Shed And Buried: Classic Cars earlier on, a Repair Shop rerun straight after, and a fresh BSB Highlights closing things out for anyone after the racing recap before bed.

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