Quest TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Quest Tonight

Published: 21 August 2026

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. Saturday 22 August 2026 runs the usual salvage-and-workshop daytime, with Wheeler Dealers holding six straight hours from 9am before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes the mid-afternoon. The evening then belongs almost entirely to Shed And Buried itself, which runs six half-hour episodes back to back from 5pm to 7:30pm, four of them inside primetime. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic follows at 8pm, The Repair Shop runs back to back at 9pm and 10pm, and Outback Opal Hunters closes the night from 11pm. There’s no premiere anywhere in tonight’s line-up. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Saturday 22 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Saturday 22 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Saturday’s daytime opens with a How Do They Do It? double bill from midnight, then Salvage Hunters runs two episodes back to back from 1am before Salvage Hunters: The Restorers takes the 3am hour. How It’s Made splits into two half-hour episodes from 4am, followed by an hour of Teleshopping from 5am. Massive Engineering Mistakes takes the 6am hour, BSB Highlights follows at 7am, and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic gets an early outing at 8am, hours before it returns in primetime. Wheeler Dealers then settles in for six straight hours, 9am to 2pm, before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars runs two episodes from 3pm. The evening’s six-episode Shed And Buried run starts straight after, 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, Saturday 22 August 2026.

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

Shed And Buried effectively owns early evening on Quest tonight. Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend work through six half-hour episodes back to back, from 5pm through to 7:30pm, and four of those (series 7, episodes 13 to 16, at 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm and 7:30pm) fall inside primetime. It’s the channel’s cheapest possible programming decision and also its most reliable one: barn finds, sheds full of clutter, the odd genuine motorcycle worth restoring.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

At 8pm, Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic (series 3, episode 4) sends Anstead to Scotland to track down a 1964 Mark 1 Cortina, before a knocking sound back at the workshop complicates the restoration.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm and 10pm

The Repair Shop runs a straight double at 9pm and 10pm (series 4, episodes 5 and 6). Jay Blades and the team work through a water-damaged penny arcade game, a rocking horse and a 1930s pinball machine across the two hours, the kind of gentle craft-and-nostalgia mix that has made the show Quest’s most dependable acquired hit.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 11pm

Series 15, episode 5 closes the night. A rare fossil brings in an expert, the Mooka Boys get a wash plant built, and the Bushmen’s season hangs on machinery that has seen better days.

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’s primetime is dominated by Shed And Buried, which runs six half-hour episodes from 5pm to 7:30pm, four of them after 6pm. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic follows at 8pm, The Repair Shop runs back to back at 9pm and 10pm, and Outback Opal Hunters 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

Saturday’s schedule keeps to Quest’s usual shape, with Wheeler Dealers running six hours solid through the morning and into the afternoon before Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes over ahead of the evening.

Primetime leans entirely on the channel’s regulars rather than anything new, and one show dominates it more than usual. Shed And Buried fills six half-hour slots from 5pm to 7:30pm on its own, four of them in primetime, before Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 8pm, The Repair Shop runs a straight double at 9pm and 10pm, and Outback Opal Hunters sees the night out from 11pm.

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