CBS Renewals Justin Hartley Series “Tracker” Early for Season 2

This season’s first new broadcast drama, Tracker, also happens to be the first new written series to be renewed for a second season. After four airings, CBS has decided to bring up a second season of the Justin Hartley series, which debuted after the Super Bowl and received good ratings.

Tracker, from 20th Television, is currently the most watched show on television, thanks to its successful premiere behind the Super Bowl, which attracted 30 million viewers across several platforms.

Since its high-profile debut, the drama has averaged nearly 16 million viewers across multiple platforms, improving its Sunday 9pm slot by 83% year-on-year and surpassing 2017/18’s Young Sheldon (4:49 It became the most-watched new series since 2000. It was the most-watched new drama since 2014/15’s “Empire” (17.33 million viewers).

Ratings data for last night’s fourth and final episode of “Tracker” is not available, but the second episode was the biggest CBS audience of its first week, with 12.9 million viewers over seven days of airing and streaming. collected, which is equivalent to about twice that number. 6.9 million daily viewers. The number of viewers for the third episode on the same day reached up to 7.1 million viewers, indicating that the program’s momentum was maintained.

“Tracker kicked off our premiere week with a ratings bang and has kept the momentum going,” stated Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “We knew we had something special when we saw the very first cut of the series and the overwhelming audience response confirms it. We couldn’t be more grateful to Justin, the talented cast, the incredible writing and producing teams and our partners at 20th Television for such compelling episodes. And, of course, we’re also so thankful to the millions of viewers tuning in each week.

In an interview, ahead of Tracker’s premiere, Reisenbach said the show, whose pilot was distributed to the network in November 2022, will be delayed until the 2023-24 season to allow for a longer promotional period. about the decision to postpone.

Tracker’s initial ads debuted during CBS’ March Madness in the spring of last year. The network then revealed in May that the show will debut after the Super Bowl—a time Hartley is used to because his previous show, NBC’s This Is Us, also aired an episode after the Big Game.

The strike delayed production on all scripted series, and Tracker’s producers scrambled to make the Super Bowl premiere happen, and they nailed it.