Exclusive | Will Justin Hartleys This Is Us co-stars be on Tracker Season 2?

It’s rewarding.Justin Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a survivalist who travels America to track down missing people for reward money, in “Tracker.” The CBS show (which Hartley also exec produces) was a hit when Season 1 aired, becoming the most-watched primetime series of the 2023-24 broadcast season, snaring an average of around 20 million viewers per episode.Season 2 premieres Sunday, Oct.

13 (8 p.m.ET/PT) on CBS and Paramount+.

“It’s a relief,” Hartley, 47, told The Post about the show’s success. “When you put something out there and give it your all – and when you build something that has your taste profile – you hope that other people like it.And you never know.

So it’s been really great.”Colter is a lone wolf, but he’s got a remote team that helps him, including Teddi (Robin Weigert), Velma (Abby McEnany), Reenie (Fiona Rene) and his tech guy, Bobby (Eric Graise).He’s also got a complicated relationship with his brother, Russell Shaw (Jensen Ackles). “We always had the idea that the character Russell Shaw would come on the show, we didn’t have it cast yet.

And Jensen was watching football, and he just texted me to get my ugly mug off of his screen – because he was trying to watch the game, and I guess there were too many ‘Tracker’ commercials for him to bear,” Hartley explained. “And I said, ‘If you can’t beat them, join them, why don’t you come on the show?’ That was pretty much how it happened.”Hartley and Ackles have been friends for “so long” and tried to work together for a while, said Hartley, so “this was the perfect storm; he had a little bit of free time, and we had the perfect window to bring him in.” As for how much Ackles will appear in Season 2, he said, “He’s in the second episode of the season, and then…a lot of it has to do with logistics, when actors are free, and a lot of it has to do with story.You don’t want to have someone on the show just for the sake of it, I resp...