Another Quick Thought About the Next Great Speculative-Fiction TV Show

Any steampunk TV series could also, very easily, be an Alternate History series. F'rinstance, if a certain Archduke was never assassinated in Sarajevo, World War I might not have happened - or it might have happened later, and differently. Imagine a world without a World War II, where the sun has still never set on the British Empire, and the vast technological leaps encouraged by things like the Manhattan Project never happened.

It might be a very analogue, non-digital, slide-rule over calculator, Nikolas Tesla kind of world...