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‘Tracker’ Season 3 Release Date, Cast, and More
Trust a show about a tracking expert to track itself for a season 3 renewal faster than any other series. That’s right, Justin Hartley fans continue to win as Tracker is confirmed to have more episodes.
Tracker, starring This is Us favorite and Smallville veteran, couldn’t have made a bigger splash when it debuted in February, with the series’ opening benefiting from following the Super Bowl — and not just any Super Bowl, but the most-watched television event since Moon Landing in 1969. Given its perhaps unsurprisingly rare move, CBS is taking the rare step of announcing a second season after just four episodes, given its incredibly successful viewership, it was once again inevitable.
It’s still early days, both on the season 3 front and the series as a whole, but here’s what we know about how Colter Shaw’s future adventures will play out.
In case you need a refresher, Tracker stars Hartley as the aforementioned Colter Shaw, a nomadic, lone survivor who travels the country making a living as a “bounty hunter.” Essentially, he uses his expert tracking skills to help both citizens and law enforcement track down missing people, objects, and solve all sorts of mysteries. It sounds like a prequel to network TV, but Tracker is actually based on Jeffrey Deaver’s best-selling novel The Never Game.
Prime Video’s similarly themed Reacher has found its own success adapting a series of books season by season, so we can probably expect Tracker to do the same. The Never Game is the first of four books, plus four short stories, that Deaver has published to date. The series has been fairly comfortable with its source material so far, but season 3 could always draw elements from book 2, The Goodbye Man, which finds Shaw investigating a mysterious organization in the wilderness of Washington State.
Well, no prizes for guessing this one, but Justin Hartley will indeed be returning as Shaw for Tracker season 3. His small-screen star appeal is likely a big reason for the show’s success, and CBS would never change actors or turn the series into an anthology series with a new lead each time. Since Hartley is back, we can be sure that the main cast from season 1 will be back, too. Specifically, Shaw’s handlers, married lesbian couple Teddi Bruin (Robin Weingert) and Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany), and Reenie Greene (Fiona Rene), a brilliant lawyer who helps Shaw out of legal trouble when he needs it (which is usually).
Tracker has had a strange lifespan so far, as its start was slow-burn to ensure it was as good as possible, but then its actual production sped up to meet its much-hyped premiere date. Tracker’s first episode was set to air in November 2022, before it was decided to be postponed until the 2023/24 season. Unfortunately, the 2023 strikes then left the producers scrambling to get ready in time for a Super Bowl Sunday premiere, and against all odds, they did.
Given the breakneck pace of production and the swiftness with which this renewal has been announced, it seems safe to assume that Season 3 won’t be too far away. It could premiere later this year, in time for the start of the 2024/25 season. In the meantime, stay tuned to Season 1 Tracker as new episodes debut Sundays on CBS.
