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

Published: 7 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. Tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House and Antiques Road Trip open the evening at 6pm and 7pm, then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 8pm leads into Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques at 9pm, The Repair Shop at 10pm and two episodes of How Do They Do It? closing out the night. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Tuesday 8 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Tuesday 8 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Overnight opens with two episodes of How Do They Do It? from midnight, then two Salvage Hunters episodes from 1am and Salvage Hunters: The Restorers at 3am, before a paired How It’s Made half-hour from 4am ahead of Teleshopping at 5am.

Salvage Hunters: The Restorers opens the broadcast day at 6am, then two regular Salvage Hunters episodes lead into two Aussie Gold Hunters and two Outback Opal Hunters editions through the morning. The Repair Shop returns at 1pm, two Shed And Buried episodes and Shed And Buried: Classic Cars fill the early afternoon, and Find It, Fix It, Flog It leads into two Yorkshire Auction House episodes ahead of tonight’s line-up.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The second of two Yorkshire Auction House episodes to close out early evening, following the saleroom’s usual mix of local sellers hoping for a surprise result and dealers hunting a bargain. It’s a formula Quest leans on constantly across its factual schedule: find something interesting, put a price on it, see who wants it.

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Well into series 13, two dealers set off in a classic car with a fixed budget, buying along a route of antique shops and auction houses before selling everything on to see who’s turned the bigger profit. The format has barely changed since it launched, and this far into the run it’s less about surprise than about watching people who plainly know what they’re doing.

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Former Wheeler Dealers presenter Ant Anstead gets properly hands-on for the seventh episode of series 3, focused on the mechanical build and restoration work rather than the buying-and-selling angle that drives most of Quest’s other car shows. It’s a more craft-led hour than the auction and salvage programming on either side of it.

Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques — Quest, 9pm

Comedian Johnny Vegas runs his own junk shop for the seventh episode of series 2, and despite the “New” flag on tonight’s listing this is a returning episode of an established run rather than a fresh launch. The appeal is Vegas himself as much as anything he’s selling: gruff, funny, and visibly still bemused that this is his job now.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

An earlier episode from series 3, well before the show became one of BBC One’s biggest factual hits, with the barn’s craftspeople working through another batch of family heirlooms brought in for restoration. Quest airs it well behind the BBC’s current run, so regular viewers of the newer series may recognise faces but not this particular case.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm

The first of two How Do They Do It? episodes to close the night, taking its usual tour through factories and workshops to explain the engineering behind ordinary objects and processes. It’s undemanding late-night filler, made for viewers happy to let one factual show run into the next.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11:30pm

A second, much older episode follows immediately after, from series 6 rather than the series 16 run shown half an hour earlier. Quest often closes the night by pairing episodes from different points in the show’s history rather than running two from the same series.

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 Antiques Road Trip at 7pm. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 8pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques airs at 9pm, a returning episode rather than a series launch. The Repair Shop and two episodes of How Do They Do It? close out the night. 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

Tonight is Quest’s usual shape rather than anything built around a headline booking. The Yorkshire Auction House and Antiques Road Trip open the evening, Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 8pm, and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques follows at 9pm; the Vegas episode carries a “New” flag but it’s the seventh instalment of an existing run, not a launch.

The Repair Shop and a How Do They Do It? double bill close things out, familiar acquired programming rather than anything built specifically around tonight.

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