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. Friday 21 August 2026 runs the usual salvage-and-workshop daytime, with doubled-up episodes of Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters and Outback Opal Hunters carrying the morning before the schedule settles into its evening shape. The Yorkshire Auction House opens primetime at 6pm and comes back with a different episode at 8pm, either side of Antiques Road Trip at 7pm. The Repair Shop runs back to back at 9pm and 10pm, and a How Do They Do It? double closes the night from 11pm. There’s no premiere anywhere in tonight’s line-up. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Friday 21 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Friday 21 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Friday’s daytime opens overnight with a How Do They Do It? double bill from midnight, then two episodes of Salvage Hunters back to back from 1am and Salvage Hunters: The Restorers 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 both the 9am and 10am hours, 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, Flog 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 Friday 21 August 2026. There’s no premiere anywhere in it tonight, just the channel’s regular rotation of auctions, antiques and workshop repairs.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

Quest opens primetime with series 4, episode 8 of The Yorkshire Auction House, the Bradford saleroom putting another batch of house clearances and inherited oddities under the hammer.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Anita Manning and Raj Bisram take their vans into Kent for series 13, episode 5, working shops and market stalls for pieces worth a punt at auction.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 8pm

The Yorkshire Auction House gets a second hour at 8pm. Series 7, episode 3 is a different sale from the one at 6pm, not a repeat of it.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm and 10pm

Series 8 runs two straight episodes this evening, number 5 at 9pm and number 6 at 10pm, with the usual mix of family heirlooms and the specialists working to save them.

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

The night closes with a How Do They Do It? double, series 14 episodes 14 and 15, looking at the machinery and processes behind everyday objects.

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?

Friday’s primetime opens with The Yorkshire Auction House at 6pm and Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, where Anita Manning and Raj Bisram spend the day in Kent. The Yorkshire Auction House returns with a different episode at 8pm, The Repair Shop runs back to back at 9pm and 10pm, and a How Do They Do It? double bill closes the night from 11pm. There’s no premiere in the schedule tonight. 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

Friday’s schedule keeps to Quest’s usual shape, with Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters, Outback Opal Hunters and Shed And Buried all running in doubled-up blocks through the morning and early afternoon before the auction and antiques shows take the evening.

Primetime leans entirely on the channel’s regulars rather than anything new. The Yorkshire Auction House bookends the first two hours at 6pm and 8pm with different episodes either side of Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, then The Repair Shop runs a straight double at 9pm and 10pm before How Do They Do It? sees the night out with two more episodes from 11pm.

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