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

Published: 26 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. Thursday 27 August 2026 opens the evening with a Yorkshire Auction House double at 5pm and 6pm, then hands over to Antiques Road Trip at 7pm. Two new episodes follow back to back — Outback Truckers at 8pm and Outback Opal Hunters at 9pm, both mid-series rather than launches. The Repair Shop takes a single hour at 10pm and a How Do They Do It? double closes out the night from 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Thursday’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, Thursday 27 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The second half of tonight’s opening double, following straight on from the 5pm edition. Series four continues its usual run of house clearances and saleroom deals from North Yorkshire, with auctioneer Angus Ashworth and the team weighing up whether the day’s finds are worth more under the hammer than they looked in the barn.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Pairs of dealers set off around Britain’s antique shops and fairs with a fixed budget, buying what they think will turn a profit, then find out at auction whether their eye for a bargain was any good. Series 13 continues with another route.

Outback Truckers — Quest, 8pm

A new mid-series episode, not a launch. The strand follows road-train drivers hauling freight across some of Australia’s most punishing routes, where heat, distance and breakdowns are part of the job rather than the exception. Series 11, episode 6.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 9pm

Also new tonight and also mid-series. Miners at Australia’s opal fields gamble time and money on a seam that might pay off or might not, working underground for a find that could turn a bad month around. Series 15, episode 6.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

The Ricochet-made BBC series has its usual hour to itself here, craftspeople restoring an object brought in by its owner while the story behind it comes out in the telling. Quest airs it as an acquired repeat, well behind its original BBC One run. Series 2, episode 13.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

A back-to-back double closes the night, series 15’s tenth and eleventh episodes running straight through from 11pm to midnight. Each half-hour strips down the manufacturing and engineering behind everyday objects and structures to show how they’re actually built.

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?

Quest opens the evening with a Yorkshire Auction House double at 5pm and 6pm before Antiques Road Trip takes 7pm. Two new mid-series episodes follow back to back — Outback Truckers at 8pm and Outback Opal Hunters at 9pm — then The Repair Shop has 10pm to itself 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

Thursday 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 splits across five different strands rather than repeating one. The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening at 5pm and 6pm, Antiques Road Trip takes 7pm, and two new mid-series episodes follow back to back — Outback Truckers at 8pm and Outback Opal Hunters at 9pm. The Repair Shop has 10pm to itself, and a How Do They Do It? double, episodes ten and eleven of series fifteen, closes out the night from 11pm.

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