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

Published: 12 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, Sunday 13 September 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House takes 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques follows at 7pm, then The Repair Shop settles in for four episodes wall to wall from 8pm to 11pm, closing out the night. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 13 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 13 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Overnight opens with Outback Truckers at midnight, then two Ancient Unexplained Files episodes from 1am and NASA’s Unexplained Files at 3am, before a paired How It’s Made half-hour from 4am ahead of Teleshopping at 5am.

Two American Pickers episodes open the broadcast day at 6am, then Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques airs at 8am. Two Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House episodes take 9am and 10am, and the regular Yorkshire Auction House runs two more from 11am. Four Repair Shop episodes fill the early-to-mid afternoon from 1pm, and two further Yorkshire Auction House episodes carry the schedule from 5pm into this evening’s line-up.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 13 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

A newlywed couple look to sell off some antiques and a family parts with their late father’s railway collection, the kind of small personal stories that carry this saleroom format more than the hammer prices do (series 7, episode 6).

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

The team gets ready for a trade fair, with Vegas’ ADHD adding its own complications to the packing (series 2, episode 8).

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm

Four episodes run wall to wall to close out the night, each built around a handful of restorations: a midwifery bag, a painting and a First World War brooch at 8pm; a teddy bear, a commemorative serviette, a clock and a violin at 9pm; a carved wooden statue, an owl-shaped inkwell and a darkroom timer at 10pm; then a musical instrument, a paraffin lamp and a silver music box closing out the night at 11pm. It’s the same gentle format four times over rather than four different bookings, and that’s really the point of scheduling it this way.

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 takes 6pm and Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques follows at 7pm. The Repair Shop then runs four episodes wall to wall from 8pm to 11pm, closing 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 Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques open the evening at 6pm and 7pm, then The Repair Shop takes over completely — four episodes back to back from 8pm to 11pm, effectively the whole back half of the night.

It’s familiar, low-stakes programming rather than anything built specifically around tonight, and that’s exactly what Quest’s evening schedule is for.

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