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Tracker premiered on CBS directly after Super Bowl LVIII and became the most-watched new series of the 2023-24 television season, drawing over ten million live viewers and more than fifteen million across delayed viewing — the strongest new broadcast drama debut in several years. CBS renewed it for a second season before the premiere had even finished airing.
Colter Shaw was created by thriller novelist Jeffery Deaver in The Never Game (2019), and the character's percentage-based decision-making — assigning odds to every choice before acting — comes straight from the books, where it reflects the survivalist training his brilliant, paranoid father drilled into him as a child.
Justin Hartley trained in wilderness survival, tracking, and defensive driving before production and performs a significant portion of the show's physical sequences himself, while the production deliberately films in a different American region for nearly every episode to honor the story's road-trip premise.
Tracker is CBS's hit procedural drama starring Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist and expert tracker who travels the country in his Airstream trailer taking rewards for finding missing persons and solving cases that local law enforcement has been unable to crack. Based on Jeffery Deaver's novel The Never Game, the show blends the classic American road narrative with a character-driven procedural format, using each episode's new location and new case to reveal something about Colter's complicated past — a family shaped by a brilliant, paranoid father and a childhood spent learning to survive in the wilderness, skills that have made him extraordinarily capable and deeply reluctant to form lasting attachments.
Justin Hartley, best known to audiences from This Is Us, brings a relaxed physical confidence to Colter that makes the character's near-superhuman competence feel earned rather than fantastical. Hartley's charm is crucial — Tracker asks its lead to carry most episodes almost alone through its first half, navigating new communities and new crises with limited backup — and he delivers consistently, finding the humor and the sadness in a man who has built a life out of movement precisely because stillness frightens him.
Tracker became one of the highest-rated new dramas of the 2023-24 television season, proving that CBS audiences still respond enthusiastically to well-executed standalone procedural storytelling built around a compelling central character. The show's success reflects a genuine craft in its writing and production: each episode is a complete story, but the serialized backstory of Colter's family accumulates across the season to deliver something more emotionally substantial than the format typically promises. Available on Paramount+ with live TV or as catch-up streaming.
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