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

Published: 13 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, Monday 14 September 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House takes 6pm and Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm, then Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes 8pm ahead of a new episode of Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm and MotoGP Highlight Shows at 10pm. Two How Do They Do It? episodes close out the night from 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Monday 14 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Monday 14 September 2026, on Freeview 17.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Quest today

Overnight opens with The Repair Shop at midnight, then two Richard Hammond’s Workshop episodes and Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car, before a paired How It’s Made half-hour from 4am ahead of Teleshopping at 5am.

Salvage Hunters: The Restorers and two Salvage Hunters episodes open the broadcast day from 6am, then two Aussie Gold Hunters episodes and Outback Opal Hunters carry the late morning. Outback Opal Hunters returns at midday, then The Repair Shop, two Shed And Buried episodes, Shed And Buried: Classic Cars and Find It, Fix It, Flog It fill the afternoon, before two Yorkshire Auction House episodes lead into this evening’s line-up from 5pm.

Quest tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Quest primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 14 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire saleroom runs its usual mix of house clearances and family heirlooms going under the hammer (series 5, episode 20).

Antiques Road Trip — Quest, 7pm

Two dealers set off with a fixed budget to hunt for bargains at antique shops and fairs, then find out at auction whether they’ve backed the right pieces (series 20, episode 1).

Shed And Buried: Classic Cars — Quest, 8pm

A forgotten project car gets dragged out of long-term storage and assessed for what it would actually take to get it running again (series 3, episode 6).

Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic — Quest, 9pm

Ant Anstead takes on a 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia that’s missing its steering column. It’s a new episode of the returning series rather than a launch (series 3, episode 10).

MotoGP Highlight Shows — Quest, 10pm

A round-up of the latest MotoGP race weekend — part of Quest’s regular highlights strand rather than a one-off special, despite the “new” flag.

How Do They Do It? — Quest, 11pm–11:30pm

Two episodes close the night with the usual look at the manufacturing and engineering behind everyday objects and processes (series 6, episode 20 and the episode that follows it).

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 Antiques Road Trip follows at 7pm. Shed And Buried: Classic Cars takes 8pm, then a new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic airs at 9pm and MotoGP Highlight Shows follows at 10pm. Two How Do They Do It? episodes close out the night from 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. The Yorkshire Auction House and Antiques Road Trip open the evening at 6pm and 7pm, then the schedule turns to cars and engineering: Shed And Buried: Classic Cars at 8pm, a new Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic at 9pm and the regular MotoGP Highlight Shows at 10pm.

Neither of tonight’s two new-flagged bookings is actually a launch — Ant Anstead is a returning series and MotoGP Highlight Shows is Quest’s standing weekly round-up — so it’s familiar, low-stakes programming rather than anything built specifically around tonight.

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