Justin Hartley's 'Tracker' Is Relocating After Cast Exits: Change Explained

Justin Hartley‘s Tracker is going through a big relocation change when the show returns for season 4.

News broke on Monday, May 4, that the hit CBS series is relocating to Los Angeles with the biggest California tax credit for a series to date. According to Deadline, Tracker will move from Vancouver, where the first three seasons were shot. Its studio, 20th Television, is currently locking down production facilities in and around Los Angeles.

Filming for season 4 is slated to begin in late June after a $48 million tax credit.

"I'm proud of what we built in Vancouver. I'm also very excited we're bringing Tracker to L.A.," Hartley, 49, said in a statement. "I'm looking forward to continuing to tell these stories alongside the new, fresh places we'll be heading to next. Most importantly, I want to thank the fans for showing up for us every step of the way. We couldn't do this without you."

The hit CBS series, which premiered in February 2024, introduced fictional survivalist Colter (Hartley) as he travels the country to help solve various missing persons cases. The ensemble cast grew with characters such as handlers Teddi (Robin Weigert) and Velma (AbbyMcEnany), hacker Bobby (Eric Graise) and attorney Reenie (Fiona Rene).

Weigert's character was written off and McEnany and Graise soon followed.

"I do think it's evolving. If I can't evolve those characters - Randy or Reenie or Bobby - they're not just people that just pick up the phone and go, ‘OK, here is the answer.' That's when the show is phoning it in," executive producer Elwood Reid exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2025. "The challenge is when you got to learn about them, which I thought was interesting. That's the challenge of the show is not having it fall into a formula."

Reid noted that they didn't wantTracker to "fall into complacency."

"The only rule I really have of the show is each week Colter is going to come to a new place and there's going to be a new case. How he gets those answers and what he uses on the team, that's all something that's up for grabs," Reid teased. "Meeting these [local] weird characters is something we're going to try to do more of as the season goes on. Just Colter coming in and interacting with other characters. That's fun to see Justin flex those muscles with really good guest cast members."

More recently, Reid weighed in on the onscreen changes. "What we're realizing is there are characters that come on that if it worked, we'd bring them back," he told Us in December 2025. "I do think the show can't always do that. But when it does do that, it makes the world feel a little bit more connected."

Reid noted there was only one constant on the show: Hartley's fan-favorite character.

"The audience leans in because they've seen that character before. But I think they're still thinking the central DNA of the show is Colter. With this guy, what makes him appealing is he is a mystery to himself," he added. "He's a mystery to the audience. We see him and his off time putting together some pieces of his past."

He concluded: "I don't know if we'll ever put it all together, but he's going to struggle to continue to do that. That's just as far as we have thought. The biggest improvement we made this year - in my opinion - was getting people in the same room. Just that connectivity, I do think the audience is enjoying seeing their characters in the same place physically."

Tracker airs on CBS Sundays at 9 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Paramount+.

Copyright Us Weekly. All rights reserved.

This story was originally published May 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM.