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

Published: 11 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, Saturday 12 September 2026, four Shed And Buried episodes fill early evening from 5pm, then two more open primetime at 7pm and 7:30pm ahead of Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 8pm. Two Repair Shop episodes follow from 9pm, and Aussie Gold Hunters closes out the night at 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Saturday 12 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Saturday 12 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.

Two Massive Engineering Mistakes episodes open the broadcast day at 6am, then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic airs at 8am ahead of a long Wheeler Dealers run — six episodes back to back from 9am through to 3pm, when live MotoGP coverage takes over. Shed And Buried: Classic Cars fills 4pm ahead of this evening’s line-up.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 12 September 2026.

Shed And Buried — Quest, 6pm

The third of six Shed And Buried episodes running from 5pm, filling early evening (series 8, episode 3).

Shed And Buried — Quest, 6:30pm

The fourth episode of the run, and the last before primetime itself begins (series 8, episode 4).

Shed And Buried — Quest, 7pm

Two more Shed And Buried episodes open primetime, starting here (series 8, episode 5).

Shed And Buried — Quest, 7:30pm

The sixth and final episode of tonight’s run, closing out before Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic (series 8, episode 6).

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 8pm

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes over at 8pm (series 3, episode 7).

The Repair Shop — Quest, 9pm

The Repair Shop opens a double bill at 9pm (series 4, episode 8).

The Repair Shop — Quest, 10pm

The second Repair Shop episode of the night follows straight after (series 4, episode 21).

Aussie Gold Hunters — Quest, 11pm

Aussie Gold Hunters closes out the night (series 11, episode 1).

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?

Six Shed And Buried episodes run from 5pm, the last two opening primetime at 7pm and 7:30pm, then Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic takes 8pm. Two Repair Shop episodes follow from 9pm, and Aussie Gold Hunters closes out the night 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

Tonight is Quest’s usual shape rather than anything built around a headline booking. Six Shed And Buried episodes run from 5pm through to 8pm, a long enough stretch that it’s effectively the evening’s spine, before Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic and a Repair Shop double bill take over.

Aussie Gold Hunters closes things out at 11pm, familiar acquired programming rather than anything built specifically around tonight.

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