As CBS is happy to shout out to the world, Tracker was the top show of the 2023-2024 season that didn’t involve some sort of football being thrown around (airing after the Super Bowl — the biggest show featuring a football — didn’t hurt). The procedural now has a tough act to follow in Season 2, but CBS has confidence that Tracker will continue its hot streak. Not only is Tracker returning earlier than it did last year, but it will have a lot more episodes this time around.
Starring This Is Us’ Justin Hartley, Tracker follows Colter Shaw, a man who makes a living taking on cases usually involving missing persons, using his innate ability to track down people to work with law enforcement and regular folks in exchange for reward money. The producers call it “an old-fashioned show, but an elevated old-fashioned show,” and it certainly falls under that category, with cases of the week that wrap up at the end of the episode and a hero at the center, but certainly a more complicated hero than we’re used to.
We’re rounding up everything we know about Tracker Season 2, including when it will release, how many episodes it will be, who will be in it, and more.
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Tracker will be without one of its handlers when Season 2 premieres. On Aug. 9, TVLine reported that Robin Weigert, who plays Teddi, is not coming back for Season 2. No reasons were given for her exit.
Tracker Season 2 release date
Tracker will return for Season 2 on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024 at 8/7c. The late fall premiere is unusual for CBS, but it looks like the network is leveraging its NFL broadcasts to boost awareness; CBS is using most of October to premiere its big scripted series, so expect NFL games broadcast on CBS to be packed with promos. Starting Oct. 20, Tracker will be followed on Sunday nights by a new season of The Equalizer.
Last season, Tracker aired on Sundays at 9/8c. Season 1 premiered after the Super Bowl in 2024 and became the most-watched scripted program on television en route to being the No. 1 new show of the season.
How many episodes will Tracker Season 2 be?
After just 13 episodes in Season 1 — Tracker was a midseason show — a proper fall launch means that we’ll be getting a lot more Tracker in Season 2. At the Television Critics Association press tour in July, executive producer Ken Olin confirmed that Season 2 will have 22 episodes.
Is Tracker based on a book?
The drama series is based on The Never Game, the first book in a series by Jeffery Deaver. (The TV series was originally titled The Never Game.) The Never Game was published in 2019 and is the first in a series of four books centered on Colter Shaw. The other three books are The Goodbye Man (2020), The Final Twist (2021), and Hunting Time (2022).
