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

Published: 22 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. Sunday 23 August 2026 leans on the channel’s antiques double-act before handing the night almost entirely to one show: The Yorkshire Auction House takes 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques follows at 7pm, then The Repair Shop settles in for four straight hours, from 8pm through to midnight. There’s no premiere anywhere in tonight’s line-up. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Sunday’s daytime opens with Outback Truckers at midnight, then two episodes of Ancient Unexplained Files carry the schedule through to 3am, when NASA’s Unexplained Files takes over. How It’s Made splits into two half-hour instalments from 4am, and an hour of Teleshopping fills the 5am slot. American Pickers runs a double bill at 6am and 7am, and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques gets an 8am outing hours before its primetime repeat. Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House holds the 9am and 10am hours, then its non-celebrity sister show, The Yorkshire Auction House, takes 11am and midday before a four-episode Repair Shop run fills the whole 1pm-to-5pm afternoon stretch. The Yorkshire Auction House returns for the 5pm and 6pm early-evening hours, leading straight into tonight’s primetime. 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 23 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

Angus Ashworth’s saleroom takes the 6pm slot, this time built around a haul of aviation memorabilia and a substantial run of whisky bottles (series 7, episode 3).

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

At 7pm, Johnny Vegas and son Tom cross over to Ireland to hunt down bargains at a Kilkenny salvage yard, rounding things off with a stop at the local pub (series 2, episode 5).

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm to midnight

Then Quest hands the rest of the night over completely: four straight hours of The Repair Shop, back to back from 8pm to midnight, rather than the usual single evening slot. The 8pm hour (series 7, episode 24) has the team tackling a set of motorbike saddle bags and a stained-glass window panel. At 9pm (series 11, episode 16), the standout job is a decades-old Dictaphone recording brought back to working order. The 10pm hour (series 4, episode 7) covers a well-travelled family bicycle and a treasured leather case, and the run closes at 11pm (series 6, episode 57) with a Victorian-era toy restoration and a life-size mannequin.

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 keeps things simple: The Yorkshire Auction House at 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 7pm lead in, before The Repair Shop takes over completely, running four straight hours from 8pm to midnight. 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

Sunday keeps to Quest’s usual shape by daylight, with Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House and its regular counterpart carrying the morning into a four-episode Repair Shop block that fills the early afternoon.

Primetime is unusually concentrated tonight. The Yorkshire Auction House holds 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques takes 7pm, then The Repair Shop claims every hour from 8pm to midnight rather than sharing the evening with anything else. It’s a formula the channel leans on often, and a strong run of restoration stories — a war-era Dictaphone recording, a family bike with some serious travel history behind it — makes the case for why it keeps working.

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