When CBS announced their 2024-2025 shows would have their season premieres, the Eye said that they would debut Tracker and The Equalizer on October 27th. However, today, CBS changed things up.
So go get your calendars because you are going to want to make the appropriate changes. If you don’t, you will miss new episodes of the Justin Hartney and Queen Latifah shows.
CBS Premiere Week
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13th
8:00-9:00 PM TRACKER (second season premiere)
9:00-11:00 PM BIG BROTHER (season finale)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20th
8:30-9:30 PM TRACKER
9:30-10:30 PM THE EQUALIZER (fifth season premiere)
I wonder why they changed their minds because it was the smart thing to do.
CBS scored a touchdown when they picked up Tracker straight-to-series. They just didn’t know how much until they chose to air it after the Super Bowl, and it kicked ass harder than a punter kicks the ball.
Most shows lose viewers after they lose a lead-in, like the football game. However, the Justin Hartley procedural has retained a large part of the audience they found on that first night. It’s like the series’ premise: Hartley tracking down those who are lost.
So much so that it is this season’s #1 show on broadcast television.
The most-watched new show since Desperate Housewives and the first new program to debut at #1 in over two decades, is seen by 11.58 million viewers with live plus 7-day viewing each week.
Before Justin Hartley was looking for missing people on Tracker, the detectives on Cold Case were looking for his murder. He looks the same now as he did when he was 30 in that 2007 episode.
Tracker is this season’s biggest new show, and the biggest mystery is who is going to play Justin Hartley’s biggest brother.
All season long, the procedural has teased Colter’s brother, Russell. On May 12th, we are going to meet him. But we don’t have to wait until then to find out who is going to play him.
That is because today, Hartley revealed that Jensen Ackles scored the role, even though the Supernatural star can’t score in Galaga.
According to Variety, “Russell enlists Colter’s help to track down an old Army buddy.“
Am I the only one who feels like Ackles and Hartley are cheating on Jared Padalecki and Sterling K. Brown respectively?
CBS loves Tracker so much that they held the premiere so that it would debut after the Super Bowl. And it was a smart move because the missing person procedural which stars Justin Hartley is doing really well in the ratings on Sunday nights.
How well? The network didn’t wait to pick it up for a second season, so they announced today that it will be back.
“TRACKER kicked off our premiere week with a ratings bang and has kept the momentum going,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “We knew we had something special when we saw the very first cut of the series and the overwhelming audience response confirms it. We couldn’t be more grateful to Justin, the talented cast, the incredible writing and producing teams and our partners at 20th Television for such compelling episodes. And, of course, we’re also so thankful to the millions of viewers tuning in each week.”
