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

Published: 2 September 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 3 September 2026 works through Quest’s usual salvage and workshop strands by day — Salvage Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters, Outback Opal Hunters and Shed And Buried all get a look-in before 5pm — then opens the evening with two Yorkshire Auction House episodes from the same series but four episodes apart, before Antiques Road Trip, Outback Truckers and Outback Opal Hunters take the 7pm, 8pm and 9pm hours. The Repair Shop and a late-night How Do They Do It? double close the night out. There’s no motorsport on the schedule today. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Thursday 3 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Thursday 3 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Thursday’s small hours open with a How Do They Do It? double at midnight and 12:30am, followed by two Salvage Hunters at 1am and 2am and a Salvage Hunters: The Restorers episode at 3am — three different points in the Salvage Hunters franchise inside three hours. A paired How It’s Made half-hour runs from 4am, and Teleshopping fills 5am. From 6am the day works through Quest’s core factual strands in turn rather than repeating one of them: Salvage Hunters: The Restorers, then two more Salvage Hunters at 7am and 8am, Aussie Gold Hunters at 9am and 10am, Outback Opal Hunters at 11am and midday, The Repair Shop at 1pm, and a Shed And Buried hour from 2pm that folds in the Classic Cars spin-off at 3pm before Find It, Fix It, Flog It closes out the afternoon at 4pm. The Yorkshire Auction House takes over at 5pm, running straight into its own second 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, Thursday 3 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House (series 5, episode 9) takes in another round of consignments, sorting genuine value from clutter before the gavel falls. Tonight’s sellers include a family clearing out a water-damaged hoard of Holmes memorabilia — an unusual reason to part with a collection. It’s the second episode tonight, four instalments further into series 5 rather than a direct follow-on from the 5pm hour.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Antiques Road Trip (series 13, episode 14) sends two of its regular pairings out with a fixed budget to buy at shops and fairs before testing their judgement at auction. Tonight it’s Philip Serrell and Catherine Southon, working their way along the Cornish coast.

Outback Truckers — Quest, 8pm

Outback Truckers (a new episode, series 11, episode 7) follows long-haul drivers taking on some of Australia’s toughest routes, hauling loads that would finish off a lesser rig. Tonight’s run brings bigger cargo and worse roads than the last one.

Outback Opal Hunters — Quest, 9pm

Outback Opal Hunters (a new episode, series 15, episode 7) follows miners chasing a payable seam underground, where one good dig can save a season. Tonight the Slim Pickings crew stake out fresh ground while the Bushmen team get their gear back in working order.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

The Repair Shop (series 3, episode 1) sees the barn’s craftspeople take on more battered family possessions, among them a watch with a history attached to it. This is Quest’s archive rerun of the show’s third series — not BBC One’s new Beyond the Barn spin-off, which isn’t on tonight.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

How Do They Do It? (series 16, episode 8) pulls back the curtain on how everyday and specialist objects get made. Tonight covers the engineering behind deep foundations for tall buildings, and how English willow is turned into a cricket bat good enough for the professionals.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11:30pm

How Do They Do It? (series 16, episode 9) closes the double with a change of scale: tractors built at speed for Indian farms, and bronze bells cast for export to Switzerland.

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 opens the evening at 5pm and 6pm — the same series, but four episodes apart rather than a consecutive pair. Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm, with Philip Serrell and Catherine Southon touring the Cornish coast (a different trip from Really’s own Antiques Road Trip at 8pm). Outback Truckers and Outback Opal Hunters, both new episodes, take 8pm and 9pm, then The Repair Shop follows at 10pm — an archive repeat of the BBC show, not BBC One’s new Beyond the Barn spin-off, which isn’t on tonight — and two episodes of How Do They Do It? see the night out at 11pm and 11:30pm. There’s no motorsport in Quest’s line-up tonight. 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’s Quest moves through its factual strands rather than dwelling on any one of them — salvage, gold and opal hunting, auctions and workshop shows each get their turn across the day before the evening settles into a straightforward run of hour-long strands. The Yorkshire Auction House opens at 5pm and 6pm, the same series but four episodes apart rather than a consecutive pair, before Antiques Road Trip takes 7pm.

Outback Truckers at 8pm and Outback Opal Hunters at 9pm are the evening’s new episodes. After that it’s The Repair Shop at 10pm — Quest’s long-running archive repeat of the BBC show, not to be confused with BBC One’s Beyond the Barn spin-off, which isn’t on tonight — and a How Do They Do It? double that stays within the same series to close the night. No motorsport tonight, unlike some evenings on this channel.

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