Freesat has announced that, from Wednesday 1st July, The Bill will be showing in high definition exclusively on the Freesat satellite platform.
The first episode -- "Conviction Cover-Up" -- starts a six-part series.
It follows a line of popular ITV dramas to get the HD treatment including Lewis and Law & Order UK.
It's a shame that these dramas are currently only (easily) available to Freesat users. Hopefully the advent of Freeview HD (or perhaps some better licensing agreements instead).

Hi,
Does this mean that it won't be in HD on Virgin cable ITVHD?
It seems odd to broadcast different content on each delivery channel.
Lee
Sorry, I see that the original post was on June 30th. For some reason it only popped up on my RSS reader today April 8th :)