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

Updated: 20 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 20 September 2026, The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening at 6pm, then Secret Life Of The Auction House takes 7pm. Four Repair Shop episodes run back to back from 8pm to close out the night. Full breakdown below.

Quest Schedule: Sunday 20 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Quest schedule for Sunday 20 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 and NASA’s Unexplained Files carry the small hours, before a paired How It’s Made half-hour at 4am ahead of Teleshopping at 5am.

Shed And Buried opens the broadcast day at 6am, then three American Pickers episodes carry the morning through to half past nine. Two Yorkshire Auction House episodes take the late morning, before British Superbikes Live runs from 11:30am into mid-afternoon. A second Shed And Buried episode and another Yorkshire Auction House instalment 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, Sunday 20 September 2026.

The Yorkshire Auction House — Quest, 6pm

The Yorkshire Auction House opens the evening (series 7, episode 7). A stash of Victorian jewellery turned up in Bangor sets off a bidding frenzy in this trip inside the saleroom.

Secret Life Of The Auction House — Quest, 7pm

Secret Life Of The Auction House follows at 7pm (series 1, episode 1), a behind-the-scenes look at how one of Britain’s auction houses actually runs, rather than the saleroom action itself.

The Repair Shop — Quest, 8pm-midnight

Four Repair Shop episodes carry the rest of the night, the channel’s main evening block. Jay Blades and the team work through paintings, silverware, rings and toys in the first hour, an antique silver tray and a 1950s painting in the second, more family heirlooms in the third, and a steel-bodied guitar alongside an earthquake-damaged sculpture in the last.

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 Secret Life Of The Auction House takes 7pm. Four Repair Shop episodes run back to back from 8pm to 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 leans hard on the auction-house strand before handing over entirely to The Repair Shop: The Yorkshire Auction House and Secret Life Of The Auction House share the early evening, then four Repair Shop episodes fill the rest of the night from 8pm to midnight.

It’s a repeat-heavy but dependable Sunday, exactly the kind of low-stakes, drop-in-anytime programming Quest is built around.

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