What is a network 'pickup' or 'episode order'?

What is a network 'pickup' or 'episode order'?

If you're lucky enough to produce a successful pilot that presses the network to the point where you beat out the other pilots, the timing has to be right, and the network actually has to have the money to go to series. Sometimes the network will fund a bunch of pilots and then run out of money and not make any series at all. If you are lucky enough to get all the way to the point where they green light your series, which means they actually want you to make a television show to be on television, that's the pickup moment. It's the same as the green light moment. We are picking up your show for a season. That can mean anything, from six episodes to thirteen episodes to twenty five episodes. In the case of game shows, it's often a lot of episodes, because they are usually daily shows. If it's a daily show, we call it a strip show, meaning it's on every day of the week, stripped across the week. If it's a strip show, they order sixty-five episodes, which is usually 13 weeks worth of programming. It could be any number of episodes; it depends on the show, depends on the network, and depends on the budget. The pickup of a multiple order of episodes for television is what we're all after.