Can any UK poster remember the series, they did Balaclava as well. It was quite interesting. (It was NOT the horrible "Time Commanders", the generals were real army officers.)
according to this link what i found - 'The latest and most highly developed attempt to put wargames on TV was Channel 4's series 'Game of War', which was broadcast in August 1997. The series consisted of three kriegsspiels - on Naseby 1645, Waterloo 1815 and Balaklava 1854 - using playing committees of real generals, military historians and defence journalists &c.'

don't remember it myself, but that looks like it.