Justin Hartley's series Tracker has been renewed early for a second season on CBS

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Keep track of, The first drama to debut this season, it is also the first freshmen scripted series to be renewed for a second season. Amid strong ratings after its post-Super Bowl premiere, CBS picked up a second season of the series starring Justin Hartley after four episodes.

Buoyed by the premiere behind the Super Bowl, which attracted 30 million multi-platform viewers, Trackerfrom 20th Television, ranks as the No. 1 most-watched program on television.

Since its high-profile debut, the drama has averaged nearly 16 million viewers across multiple platforms, improving its Sunday 9pm slot by 83% over last year, and is the most-watched new series since . Young Sheldon In 2017/2018 (16.49 million viewers), and the most watched new drama since 2014/2015 empire (17.33 million viewers).

There is no ratings data available for TrackerCBS' fourth broadcast last night But the second episode drew CBS' largest audience in its premiere week, 12.9 million viewers, after seven days of viewing via broadcast and streaming, nearly doubling the same-day audience of 6.9 million. The third episode generated as many as 7.1 million viewers on the same day, indicating that the show is maintaining its momentum.

“Tracker “We started off our premiere week very strong in the ratings and have kept the momentum going,” said Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Entertainment. “We knew we had something special when we watched the first part of the series, and the overwhelming audience response confirms that. We couldn't be more grateful to Justin, the talented cast, the amazing writing and production teams and our partners at 20^y Television for such compelling episodes. And of course, we're also very grateful to the millions of viewers who tune in every week.

In an interview with Deadline before TrackerIn Reisenbach's premiere, he spoke about the decision to push back the launch of the show whose pilot was delivered to the network in November 2022 to the 2023-24 season in order to give it a longer promotional runway.

The first sites for Tracker It dropped during March Madness on CBS last spring, and in May the network announced that the series would premiere after the Super Bowl, a slot Hartley is familiar with like his previous series, NBC. this is us, It also aired an episode after the big game.

Due to the strike, the production of all scripted series was delayed, so the production of all scripted series was postponed Tracker The producers had to scramble to make their Super Bowl premiere, which they did successfully.

The series is based on the best-selling novel Never game Written by Jeffrey Deaver, Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a lone wolf who roams the country as a bounty hunter, using his expert tracking skills to help ordinary citizens and law enforcement officials solve all kinds of mysteries while dealing with his fractured family.

Hartley, Ken Olin, Elwood Reed and Ben Winters serve as executive producers. Tracker It airs on CBS and is available for streaming and on demand on Paramount+.