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

Published: 23 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. Monday 24 August 2026 spreads the evening across six different shows rather than parking on one: a Yorkshire Auction House double at 5pm and 6pm gives way to Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm and a new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm, before The Repair Shop takes a single hour at 10pm and How Do They Do It? closes out the night with a back-to-back pair from 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Monday’s daytime opens with The Repair Shop at midnight, then Mike Brewer’s World Of Cars runs four half-hour instalments from 1am, taking in lowriders, a hunt for a decent pint and a grudge match with a drag-racing champion. Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car swaps in a DeLorean at 3am, and How It’s Made splits into two half-hour editions from 4am ahead of an hour of Teleshopping at 5am. Salvage Hunters holds the breakfast slot from 6am through to 9am, first in its Restorers spin-off form and then Drew Pritchard’s original, before Aussie Gold Hunters and Outback Opal Hunters each run a pair of episodes through to 1pm. The Repair Shop returns for a single hour at 1pm, Shed And Buried doubles up at 2pm and 2:30pm, and its Classic Cars spin-off takes 3pm with an Austin A40 rescue — a different episode from the Chrysler that turns up in primetime. Find It, Fix It, Flog It fills 4pm, and The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening proper with back-to-back episodes at 5pm and 6pm. 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 24 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House holds the second half of its teatime double at 6pm (series 4, episode 10), with Angus sorting through a household’s worth of animal-shaped keepsakes and a couple hoping the sale proceeds fund a dream holiday for their disabled son. It follows a separate episode at 5pm centred on items from Alison’s late parents’ home, so the two half-hours are a pair rather than a repeat of each other.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Charles Hanson and James Braxton set off on a fresh Antiques Road Trip at 7pm (series 13, episode 6), starting in the Scottish Highlands before reuniting to sell what they’ve found at auction in Aberdeen.

Shed And Buried: Classic Cars — Quest, 8pm

Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend head to High Wycombe at 8pm (series 3, episode 3) to see what can be done with a 1960s Chrysler Imperial Crown, a slab of American luxury that’s been off the road for years.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 9pm

A new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic lands at 9pm (series 3, episode 5). The project is a three-wheeled BMW Isetta, and it doesn’t go smoothly: an engine fire and failed brakes put the workshop through its paces before the job is done.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

The Repair Shop takes a single hour at 10pm tonight (series 2, episode 10), a change from the multi-episode runs the show sometimes gets on Quest. A treasure chest is brought back to life for a customer’s granddaughter, alongside a childhood cuddly toy and an old military dress helmet.

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

Two editions of How Do They Do It? close the night, back to back from 11pm (series 14, episodes 18 and 19). The first covers the paddleboats that cruise the Mississippi and a defensive “waterwall” system; the second moves on to how paving stones are made and what goes into a traditionally tailored tuxedo.

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 spreads across six shows: The Yorkshire Auction House at 6pm, Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm and a new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm, followed by a single-hour Repair Shop at 10pm and a How Do They Do It? double from 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 keeps to Quest’s usual shape by daylight, with Salvage Hunters and the gold-and-opal hunting shows carrying the morning into a single-episode Repair Shop and a Shed And Buried double through early afternoon.

Primetime is spread more widely than usual tonight, moving through six different shows rather than settling on one. The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening with a genuine pair of episodes at 5pm and 6pm, Antiques Road Trip and Shed And Buried: Classic Cars take the next two hours, and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic brings a new episode at 9pm before The Repair Shop and a How Do They Do It? double close things out. It makes for a varied run rather than a single show carrying the whole night.

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