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Justin Hartley is heading backmost to nan Super Bowl. Hartley’s caller CBS play “Tracker” has landed nan champion lead-in imaginable for a bid premiere: The show has landed nan coveted post-Super Bowl slot adjacent season, launching down Super Bowl LVIII connected Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.
Hartley, of course, knows a point aliases 2 astir that slot. As 1 of nan stars of NBC’s “This Is Us,” he watched a Crock Pot tear his TV family isolated successful that show’s very typical “Super Bowl Sunday” episode, airing correct aft nan large crippled successful 2018.
In premiering “Tracker” aft nan Super Bowl, CBS continues its return to nan once-common believe of utilizing nan biggest nighttime connected TV to motorboat a caller series. The past clip CBS ran nan game, successful 2021, nan web premiered “The Equalizer” down Super Bowl LV. (It worked: “The Equalizer” is still connected nan air.) The clip earlier that, successful 2019, CBS utilized Super Bowl LIII to premiere “The World’s Best.” (It didn’t work: “The World’s Best” only lasted a season.)
Last year, Fox utilized nan Super Bowl lead-out slot to tally nan play premiere of its reality cooking title “Next Level Chef.”
Other post-Super Bowl airings for CBS successful caller years see episodes of “The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert” (2016), “Elementary” (2013), “Undercover Boss” (2010) and “Criminal Minds” (2007).
Originally titled “The Never Game,” “Tracker” was ordered to bid backmost successful December. The show has had a agelong roadworthy to air, having first been put into improvement astatine CBS successful 2021 and ordered to aviator successful July 2022. In nan show, Hartley arsenic “lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw,” who roams nan state arsenic a “reward seeker,” utilizing his master search skills to thief backstage citizens and rule enforcement lick each mode of mysteries while contending pinch his ain fractured family.
“Tracker” is based connected nan Jeffery Deaver caller “The Never Game,” and besides stars Fiona Rene arsenic Reenie, Robin Weigert arsenic Teddi, Abby McEnany arsenic Velma and Eric Graise arsenic Bobby.
Hartley, Ken Olin, Ben Winters, Hilary Weisman Graham and Jeffrey Deaver are executive producers. Olin directed nan aviator from a book written by Winters. The bid is produced by Twentieth Television.
“Tracker” airs aft nan CBS Sports position of Super Bowl LVII, airing Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 from Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas, Nev. The large crippled will beryllium telecast unrecorded connected some CBS and Paramount+.
The “Tracker” Super Bowl timeslot was announced Wednesday arsenic portion of CBS’ autumn 2023 reveal; nan web opted to denote its schedule a week earlier nan upfronts position — arsenic for nan first clip successful decades, nan Eye web isn’t showcasing its wares successful Carnegie Hall to advertisers during nan accepted upfront week. CBS had primitively planned to observe its autumn schedule via an arena connected Wednesday astatine Neuehouse Hollywood, but that statement was put connected clasp owed to nan writers strike.
