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

Published: 5 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. Sunday 6 September 2026 has no real standout: The Yorkshire Auction House and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques open the evening at 6pm and 7pm, then it’s four episodes of The Repair Shop wall to wall from 8pm through to midnight. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Sunday’s small hours open with Outback Truckers at midnight, then two Ancient Unexplained Files episodes and NASA’s Unexplained Files before a paired How It’s Made half-hour runs from 4am and Teleshopping fills 5am. Two American Pickers episodes cover 6am and 7am, then Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques takes 8am.

From 9am, two Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House episodes lead into two of the regular Yorkshire Auction House, then four episodes of The Repair Shop run back to back from 1pm to 4pm. The Yorkshire Auction House returns for 5pm and 6pm ahead of tonight’s line-up. 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 6 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire auction-house format that’s taken over this slot from Quest’s older salvage shows, following lots through the saleroom rather than a workshop rebuild.

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

Johnny Vegas runs his own antiques shop for the cameras, mixing dealing with the comedian’s usual deadpan asides. A repeat, like most of Quest’s early evening.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm-11pm

Four episodes back to back, wall to wall until midnight, pulled from three different series of the archive run rather than one continuous story. It’s Quest’s most dependable acquired hit, but tonight is pure volume rather than anything new — the same objects-with-a-story format four times over.

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 6pm, then Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 7pm. From 8pm it’s four episodes of The Repair Shop back to back through to midnight, an archive repeat of the BBC show rather than BBC One’s newer Beyond the Barn spin-off. 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 Quest has no real standout. The Yorkshire Auction House and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques share the early evening, both familiar reruns, before the schedule hands the rest of the night to The Repair Shop — four episodes, wall to wall, through to midnight.

It’s Quest doing what it does most evenings when there’s no motoring special to build around: lean on one dependable acquired format and fill the hours. Nothing wrong with The Repair Shop as comfort viewing, but four episodes in a row is volume, not variety.

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