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

Published: 29 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 30 August 2026 splits neatly in two: live sport owns the afternoon, with British Superbikes Live running a full five hours from 1pm to 6pm as round eight of the season reaches its Sunday races at Cadwell Park, and then The Repair Shop owns the evening, filling all four hours from 8pm to midnight with four separate, unconnected cases. The Yorkshire Auction House and a repeat of Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques bridge the two. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 30 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Sunday’s small hours on Quest are a run of unconnected factual strands rather than any one strand repeating: Outback Truckers opens at midnight, two episodes of Ancient Unexplained Files follow from 1am, NASA’s Unexplained Files takes 3am and How It’s Made splits into a paired half-hour from 4am, before Teleshopping fills the 5am slot. American Pickers gets a double outing from 6am, and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques opens the daytime proper at 8am — the same episode that returns at 7pm tonight. The Repair Shop then holds the whole of the late morning, with four separate episodes running from 9am to 1pm, before the channel hands the rest of the afternoon over to live sport: British Superbikes Live runs a full five hours from 1pm to 6pm, covering the Sunday races from round eight of the season at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, taking the schedule right up to the point primetime begins. 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 30 August 2026. Live sport has already taken up the whole afternoon — see the daytime section above for British Superbikes Live — so the evening proper starts at 6pm.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening with its usual run of lots going under the hammer (series 7, episode 4), a low-key lead-in before The Repair Shop takes over for the rest of the night.

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

A second outing tonight for Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques (series 2, episode 6) — the same episode that opened the day at 8am, back again for anyone who missed it first time round.

The Repair Shop: a Venetian glass treasure — Quest, 8pm

The Repair Shop begins its four-hour hold on the evening with a Venetian glass kiddush cup brought in for restoration (series 7, episode 36). It’s the first of four completely separate cases tonight, not a continuing story.

The Repair Shop: cowboy boots and a Turkish saz — Quest, 9pm

A different series entirely for the second hour (series 9, episode 10), pairing a toddler’s cowboy boots with a battered Turkish saz — two unrelated family keepsakes worked on side by side.

The Repair Shop: an engagement ring and a pantomime horse — Quest, 10pm

Back to series 7 for episode 28, an odd pairing of a much-loved pantomime horse costume and a family engagement ring, restored in the same hour but belonging to two entirely different families.

The Repair Shop: a 1940s suitcase and a metal heirloom — Quest, 11pm

The night closes with a series 8 case (episode 4) built around a battered 1940s Jamaican suitcase and a family metal heirloom, closing out four Repair Shop hours that share nothing beyond the barn they were filmed in.

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?

British Superbikes Live holds the channel for five hours from 1pm to 6pm, covering the Sunday races from round eight of the season at Cadwell Park. The Yorkshire Auction House follows at 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 7pm, before The Repair Shop takes over completely, running four separate, unconnected episodes from 8pm to midnight. 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’s afternoon on Quest belongs to live sport rather than any of the channel’s usual factual strands. British Superbikes Live holds a full five hours from 1pm, following the Cadwell Park meeting through to its Sunday finish just as primetime opens.

The evening itself is almost entirely The Repair Shop. The Yorkshire Auction House and a repeat outing for Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques settle things in from 6pm, then four completely separate Repair Shop episodes run back to back from 8pm to midnight — drawn from three different series and shown out of order, so each hour is its own story rather than part of one. It’s a schedule built on repetition of format rather than repetition of story, and the four cases on offer tonight, from a Venetian glass cup to a 1940s suitcase, have nothing to do with each other.

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