Tracker continues to find a strong audience.
The CBS drama’s season 2 premiere on Sunday night drew 8.3 million total viewers (on Live+Same Day), up 9% from its season finale and marking the show’s most-watched episode since its post-Super Bowl debut in February.
What’s more, Tracker has aired its most-watched premiere on a regular schedule in three years, since NCIS premiered Season 19 (aka Mark Harmon’s swan song as Gibbs) in September 2021. Tracker now holds the title of most-watched premiere of a fall season, surpassing CBS’s preview of Matlock on Sept. 22 (which drew 7.7 million viewers in its special Sunday time slot). Matlock (finally) returns for its second episode this Thursday at 9/8c in its regular time slot.
Including the series’s hyped Super Bowl premiere, Tracker’s first 13 episodes drew 8.3 million viewers. With Live+7 reruns, Season 1 reached 10.8 million viewers, enough to top all scripted programming in total audience this past television season.
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