The sequence premiere of CBS‘ “Tracker” reached a mean 18.4 million viewers on Sunday.

Titled “Klamath Falls,” the episode hit this peak due to huge lead-in from Tremendous Bowl LVIII, which aired instantly beforehand and have become the most-watched telecast of all time, hitting a mean viewership of 123.4 million folks. “Tracker” retained 15% of the sport’s viewers.

It needs to be famous that the Tremendous Bowl stat accounts for viewership throughout CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, CBS Sports activities and NFL digital properties, whereas “Tracker” was accessible solely on CBS, Paramount+, CBS.com and the CBS app.

Because the Tremendous Bowl at all times marks the most-watched telecast of the yr, it’s customary for this system within the continuing time slot to get pleasure from a serious viewership increase. However “Tracker’s” efficiency outdid final yr’s post-Tremendous Bowl impact: In 2023, Season 2 of “Subsequent Stage Chef” held onto 13.6% of the viewers of the sport, opening to fifteen.7 million viewers after 115.1 million tuned in to see the Chiefs play the Eagles.

“Tracker” seemingly would have seen a bigger rankings bump had it began earlier, however the recreation going into extra time — for under the second time in Tremendous Bowl historical past — pushed the episode till 11:14 p.m. ET. The one Tremendous Bowl lead-outs to ever start later have been “Alias” in 2003 and “Elementary” in 2015.

CBS final aired the Tremendous Bowl was in 2021, after which it ran the sequence premiere of “The Equalizer” starring Queen Latifah. The pilot noticed 20.4 million viewers, roughly 22% retention of the Buccaneers-Chiefs recreation’s 92 million viewers.

Primarily based on the 2019 novel “The By no means Recreation” by Jeffery Deaver, “Tracker” stars Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the nation as a reward seeker, utilizing his knowledgeable monitoring abilities to assist personal residents and regulation enforcement resolve all method of mysteries whereas contending together with his personal fractured household. The sequence was created for tv by Ben H. Winters, who government produces alongside Hartley, Ken Olin and Elwood Reid. Deaver serves as producer. twentieth Tv is the studio.

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