‘Tracker’ Returns Strong As Season 2 Premiere Of Justin Hartley Series Draws 8.3M Viewers On CBS
CBS’ Tracker is starting the 2024-25 season the way it ended the 2023-24 one — on top of the broadcast program rankings. The Season 2 premiere of the procedural drama starring Justin Hartley drew 8.3M Live+Same Day linear viewers Oct. 13 in its new Sunday 8 PM time period, according to Nielsen data. That is Tracker’s most watched episode since its post-Super Bowl debut, with the 20th TV-produced series ranking as the #1 entertainment program of the week across broadcast and cable in total viewers.
It is also the most-watched linear premiere of the 2024-25 broadcast season so far, edging CBS’ hot newcomer, Matlock (7.7M), which launched with a “sneak peak” in the same Sunday 8 PM slot coming out of 60 Minutes three weeks ago. Both series faced NBC’s Sunday Night Football, Tracker, which built onto its 60 Minutes viewership lead-in by 13%, also aired against MLB playoff coverage on Fox.
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Excluding premieres coming out of live sports or pushed out of their time period by sports, this was the most-watched regularly-scheduled broadcast opener in three years — since the NCIS Season 19 opener on Sept. 20, 2021, which kicked off Mark Harmon’s exit arc — and the most-watched regularly-scheduled premiere on all of television in nearly two years — since Yellowstone‘s Season 5 debut on Nov. 12, 2022.
With a boost from its launch behind the Super Bowl, Tracker ranked as the most watched entertainment program on broadcast TV last season with 11.3M viewers. As its Season 2 debuted on CBS, Season 1 also became available on 20th TV sibling Hulu in addition to the series’ current streaming home on CBS’ sibling Paramount+.
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