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

Published: 25 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. Wednesday 26 August 2026 belongs to one strand: The Yorkshire Auction House airs four times across the evening, at 5pm, 6pm, 8pm and 9pm, with Antiques Road Trip breaking up the run at 7pm. The 9pm edition is the new one, Angus Ashworth working through a garden railway collector’s model hoard alongside a dinner set. 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: Wednesday 26 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Wednesday 26 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Wednesday’s daytime opens with a How Do They Do It? double from midnight, then Salvage Hunters runs a pair of hours from 1am before its Restorers spin-off takes 3am. 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 again from 6am through to 9am, first in its Restorers 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. 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, Wednesday 26 August 2026. One strand dominates: The Yorkshire Auction House fills four of the seven primetime hours, at 5pm, 6pm, 8pm and 9pm, with only Antiques Road Trip breaking up the run.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Elland saleroom stays open for a second hour running. A cancer survivor brings in his whisky collection, hoping the sale can raise money for a cause that matters to him.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

James Braxton and Charles Hanson head north to an auction in Hamilton, each hunting for a piece they can turn a profit on by the end of the trip.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 8pm

A widow recently back from Italy brings Soviet-era propaganda into the saleroom, an unusual find even by this show’s standards.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 9pm

Tonight’s new episode, series 7 episode 4. Angus Ashworth takes on a garden railway enthusiast’s model collection alongside a dinner set, the fourth and final outing for the show on Quest tonight.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

Jay Blades and the team take on two teddy bears with a shared love story behind them, restoring both in a single hour.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

The factual strand looks at how the ancient Greeks made parchment, one of two short items in this half-hour.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11:30pm

A second helping straight after, this time following how pizza gets made for troops stationed on the frontline.

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?

The Yorkshire Auction House dominates tonight’s schedule, airing four times — 5pm, 6pm, 8pm and 9pm — with the 9pm edition new, Angus Ashworth working through a garden railway collector’s hoard. Antiques Road Trip fills 7pm, the one break in the run, The Repair Shop takes 10pm on its own, and a How Do They Do It? double closes the night 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

Wednesday 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 belongs to a single strand. The Yorkshire Auction House airs four times across the evening — 5pm, 6pm, 8pm and 9pm — with only Antiques Road Trip at 7pm breaking up the run. The 9pm edition is the new one, Angus Ashworth handling a garden railway collection and a dinner set. The Repair Shop and a How Do They Do It? double close out the night from 10pm.

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