When will Tracker Season 3 premiere on CBS? Release and streaming details explored

Tracker Season 3 is set to drop on CBS on October 19, 2025. The first part of the two-part series will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

The premiere episode of the Tracker Season 3 is titled The Process. Justin Hartley will return as Colter Shaw, and Jensen Ackles will reprise his role as Russell Shaw.

Being the cornerstone of CBS’s fall lineup, Tracker Season 3 will take up the 8 p.m. Sunday slot as usual. For the uninitiated, Season 2 had a shocking ending when Colter’s mother was implicated for orchestrating his father’s death.

This jaw-dropping twist will take the storyline forward in the upcoming season as Colter and Russell will grapple with an unresolved family trauma while solving a new case connected to a sinister organization, “The Process.”

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When will Tracker Season 3 premiere on CBS?

Tracker Season 3 will premiere on CBS on October 19, 2025. The premiere is going to be a two-part event, and the first part is called The Process. The upcoming season consists of 22 episodes, making it the longest season of the show. The previous seasons had 13 and 20 episodes, respectively.

The new episodes will be shown on CBS every Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT. After the airing, viewers can watch the episodes on Paramount+ starting from October 20, 2025. Paramount+ provides two subscription options: the Essential plan at $7.99/month and the Premium plan at $12.99/month, which comes with a 7-day trial for new subscribers.

Tracker Season 3 teaser with Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, and Jensen Ackles hints at high-stakes drama, fresh enigmas, and significant character resurrections. The series will be shown after 60 Minutes, which will strengthen CBS's Sunday lineup and continue its status as the network’s leading drama.

Justin Hartley reprises the role of Colter Shaw alongside Fiona Rene (Reenie Greene) and Jensen Ackles (Russell Shaw), who also reprise their roles. The most significant change in the casting is that Abby McEnany (Velma Bruin) and Eric Graise (Bobby Exley) are no longer part of the main cast. The character Chris Lee (Randy) will have an increased presence, and new characters may be added as the season continues to develop.

Each episode streams on Paramount+ the day after its CBS broadcast; hence, fans can stay updated even if they miss the live airing. Previous seasons are also available for binge-watching on Paramount+.

In the US, Paramount+ drops new episodes on October 20. International streaming schedules might be different, but the show continues to be a CBS and Paramount+ exclusive.

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What is Tracker about?

Tracker is an action-drama series on CBS that follows the life of a lone-wolf survivalist, Colter Shaw. He is a "reward seeker" who travels across the U.S. to find missing people and solve mysteries for private citizens and law enforcement agencies, all while dealing with his complicated family background.

Colter lives in his RV, traveling from case to case and hoping for cash rewards to be his salary for the investigation. Typically, each episode features a different person’s disappearance case, where Colter uses a mix of intuition, surveillance, and survival skills to uncover the truth.

The series offers a storyline that is a mixture of the weekly cases, focusing on Colter’s difficult past, the death of his father, and the conflicts with his family members, mainly his mother and estranged brother Russell.

Tracker Season 2 ended with a cliffhanger: Colter Shaw discovered that his mother was the one who instigated the murder of his father, Ashton Shaw. The burden of this truth blocks Colter’s thoughts as he tries to uncover the truth, tensing the already delicate family bonds and increasing the emotional stakes for the Shaw siblings.

Tracker Season 3 opener is The Process, where Colter has to cope with the consequences of knowing his mother was involved in his father’s death.

Jensen Ackles is back in the character of Russell Shaw, whose reunion with Colter is connected to the quest for the missing wife and daughter of a client named Reenie. The siblings get caught up in a perilous sequence of events connected to an illegal scheme called The Process.

Initially, the main plot will center on the brothers’ grappling with their father’s enigmatic past, exploring themes of distrust, family inheritance, and psychological trauma.

Tracker Season 3 is expected to stick to its usual mixture of procedural and serialized storytelling: each week, Colter employs his survival techniques not only to find the missing people but also to gather information regarding his family’s past.

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