Tracker is based on Jeffery Deaver’s novel The Never Game: Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist played by Justin Hartley, travels the country finding missing people for reward money. It airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS; production moved from Los Angeles to Vancouver for the new season.
Season 4 premiered October 4, 2026 and drew 7.00 million viewers (Nielsen Live+Same Day) — No. 3 of premiere week, and CBS’s most-watched series starting after 9:45 p.m. that did not directly follow football since the Blue Bloods Season 11 finale in May 2021. The following week it rose to 7.35 million, the top scripted show of that week.
No fifth-season announcement had been made in the sources checked as of October 22, 2026.
The Facts
Network: CBS · Sundays, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Season: Season 4 · premiered October 4, 2026
Cast: Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, Chris Lee
Based on: The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver
The number: 7.00 million viewers, season premiere; 7.35 million in week two (Nielsen Live+Same Day)
Status: Season 5 not yet announced
Sources: Nielsen Live+Same Day (Big Data + Panel) premiere figures published by CBS (Paramount Press Express, October 15, 2026), ABC and NBC for the fall 2026 premieres; TheWrap and TVLine ratings roundups. Read October 22, 2026. Photo credit on the image above.
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