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

Published: 30 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 31 August 2026 is a Shed And Buried day almost from end to end, with the strand and its Classic Cars, Classic Combine and Classic Helicopter spin-offs taking eleven slots across the schedule before the evening turns to auctions, road trips and classic car restoration: The Yorkshire Auction House at 5pm and 6pm, Antiques Road Trip at 7pm, a repeated Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm and Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm, before the night closes with two hours of motorsport highlights. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Monday 31 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Monday 31 August 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Monday’s small hours open with The Repair Shop at midnight, then four Mike Brewer’s World Of Cars half-hours run from 1am to 3am, followed by Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car at 3am and a paired How It’s Made half-hour from 4am. Teleshopping fills the 5am slot. From 6am, the day belongs almost entirely to Shed And Buried and its offshoots: eleven slots in total, split across the core strand and its Classic Cars, Classic Combine and Classic Helicopter versions, drawn from series 3, 4, 6 and 7 and shown out of order rather than in sequence. It is a shape, not a run — the same format repeated with different vehicles and machinery rather than one story continuing across the day. The Yorkshire Auction House takes over at 5pm, running back to back with a second, earlier-numbered episode at 6pm, ahead of tonight’s schedule below. 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 31 August 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 5pm and 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House runs twice back to back, and the two episodes are out of sequence rather than a two-part story. The 5pm edition (series 4, episode 20) has Claire looking to downsize and raise some cash. The 6pm edition that follows is the earlier episode 17, in which a widow brings in Soviet-era propaganda alongside some Victorian gadgetry.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

At 7pm, Philip Serrell and Catherine Southon take to the road (series 13, episode 11), hunting for buys around Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham on the way to the auction. A different, unrelated Antiques Road Trip airs the same evening on Really at 8pm, with a different pair of experts starting a brand-new series — worth knowing if you’re checking two channels’ listings side by side.

Shed And Buried: Classic Cars — Quest, 8pm

The 8pm hour is Shed And Buried: Classic Cars (series 3, episode 4), Henry Cole and Fuzz Townshend working on a neglected Austin A40 in Wokingham. This is a straight repeat of the same episode shown earlier today at 9:30am, not a new outing.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 9pm

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes the 9pm slot (series 3, episode 6). It’s flagged as new by the schedule, though the series itself is well into its run: tonight Ant takes on a 1989 Lotus Esprit, gambling on the restoration after already losing money on a previous project.

MotoGP Highlight Shows — Quest, 10pm

At 10pm, MotoGP Highlight Shows covers the Aragón sprint race from MotorLand Aragón. This is an edited highlights package of racing that has already taken place, not a live broadcast.

BSB Highlights — Quest, 11pm

The 11pm hour is BSB Highlights, rounding up round eight of the British Superbikes season from Cadwell Park. Again, this is highlights rather than live coverage — a change from the previous evening, when Quest carried five hours of the same round live in the afternoon.

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 runs at 5pm and 6pm, Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm, and Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes the 8pm hour with a repeat of the Austin A40 restoration shown earlier at 9:30am. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic closes out the evening’s factual programming at 9pm, before two hours of motorsport highlights: MotoGP at 10pm and British Superbikes at 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’s Quest is really one long Shed And Buried day. Eleven slots across four versions of the strand run from 6am through the afternoon, drawn from four different series and shown out of order, before the evening switches to auctions and cars: The Yorkshire Auction House twice, Antiques Road Trip, and a repeated Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm that anyone who watched the 9:30am showing will already have seen.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic gives the evening its one genuinely new-feeling hour at 9pm, working through the gamble of a 1989 Lotus Esprit. After that, the night hands over to motorsport highlights rather than live racing — MotoGP from Aragón at 10pm and British Superbikes from Cadwell Park at 11pm. Both are packages of racing already run, a change from the previous day’s five hours of live Superbikes coverage.

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