CBS drama Tracker is officially on the move again, but viewers will have to be patient before Colter Shaw’s next case hits the screen. The network renewed its top-rated series on February 20 after it averaged 17.5 million viewers across the 2024-25 season and peaked at more than 18 million during February sweeps. Season 2 wrapped on May 11 with the cliff-hanger “Echo Ridge,” leaving fans two months of reruns and no fresh episodes on the summer schedule.
Production, however, is about to restart. A Vancouver production notice lists July 16 as the first day of principal photography for Season 3, confirming lead actor-producer Justin Hartley’s recent promise that cameras would roll “sooner than anyone expected”. CBS’s May schedule announcement positions the new run for the 2026-27 broadcast year, preserving its Sunday anchor slot ahead of Taylor Sheridan–produced competition series The Road.
Creative plans are taking shape as well. Hartley told Variety that the season will drill into the moral puzzle surrounding Colter’s mother and the family’s decades-old trauma, teasing “five more questions” for every answer delivered.
Showrunner Elwood Reid has floated an arc that flips the tracker into a fugitive, forcing him to use his survival skills to avoid being framed while pursuing the truth. With Jensen Ackles expected to reprise brother Russell and a writers’ room already mapping cases that blend weekly mysteries with serialized revelations, the series aims to deepen its character focus without sacrificing its procedural rhythm.
For now, viewers can catch encore episodes on CBS and stream the first two seasons on Paramount+. The wait for fresh installments may stretch into late 2026, but the production schedule — and Hartley’s hints of “deeper and deeper” family intrigue — suggest the payoff will be worth the gap.
