Hands up if you upgraded to high definition in anticipation of a plethora of high quality programming being pushed down the tube to your lounge room screen?

Well it seems that the novelty has worn off for some of the free to air networks, with HD signals being abandoned in favour of general entertainment channels. Seven's gone all blokey with 7Mate, and Nine's chasing grocery buyers with the female skewed GEM. And while we're looking forward to catching Laura Linney in The Big C on GEM, we're not sure who decided that re-runs of Wagon Train (1957) in black and white on 7Mate were an innovative use of modern broadcast technologies.

Who better to call on to discuss these two new channels, than Australia's first female PM, Ms. Julia Gillard, and top bloke, Pete Timbs (TV Week).