\u201cWe have spent the first three years unpacking this story about what happened to Colter\u2019s father \u2014 who was involved, who wasn\u2019t involved \u2014 and that\u2019s changed throughout the course of the show,\u201d he told TheWrap. \u201cFirst being that Colter thought his brother was involved, because his mother told him as much. Come to find out, that\u2019s not necessarily the case. So all of that kind of comes to a head and we get some answers to all that stuff at the end of Season 3.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese stories take as long as they take, but when it\u2019s time for a story to come to a head and answer some questions, it\u2019s time. And it became obvious that this was sort of the right time to do this,\u201d Hartley added. \u201cWe\u2019ll come back with something \u2014 we already have it, it\u2019s pretty incredible. Honestly, I think it\u2019s our most ambitious season to date, but I think it\u2019s also our richest one, in terms of character and backstory and where we\u2019re taking Colter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t Indeed, Season 3 dove deeper into the family lore around Colter Shaw and his estranged older brother Russell, played by Jensen Ackles. But when the series returns for Season 4, production will have moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles<\/a> thanks to a $48 million California tax credit.<\/p>\n \u201cIn terms of tone and character, I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll impact the show at all. Our show is a road show. Our character goes from town to town across the United States of America and meets people from all different walks of life and helps them out. These strangers become kind of his family in a way,\u201d Hartley explained. \u201cTo be able to shoot in a different place that gives us different landscapes, we\u2019re able to go to places \u2014 New York, D.C., the desert, Texas, the beach. It just opens up our world in terms of landscape, which is such a big character of our show.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe built a really great, wonderful show and we did it in Vancouver for the first three years. Just, inevitably, as things go, the show has to evolve,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re not really interested in doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to push the envelope and I want it to be something different, so we\u2019re excited about it. It\u2019s going to be very good for the show and for the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n Plus, after starring in other hit shows like \u201cThis Is Us,\u201d \u201cSmallville\u201d and even your favorite soap operas, Hartley is happy to have more creative input than before as an EP on \u201cTracker.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve been with producers, executive producers and writers before in my career that let me kind of chime in and be a major part of my character, but in terms of the overall show, obviously I\u2019ve never had that before. I really enjoy it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve learned a hell of a lot from these guys who are pros and been doing it for a long time, so it was a crash-course. They were very gracious with me and I feel like I\u2019ve caught up now. I like having the ball in my hands, I like being the quarterback. I like knowing that if something worked, I had a part in that. And I don\u2019t mind knowing that if something didn\u2019t work, I can take the blame for that and learn from it; we move on and that will never happen again. So far, we\u2019ve been really lucky. I have a lot of help, we work really well together and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n Based on \u201cThe Never Game\u201d by Jeffery Deaver, Ben H. Winters\u2019 \u201cTracker\u201d premiered after Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024, earning its Season 2 renewal just a month later. Since then, it has maintained its spot as the No. 1 entertainment show on network TV<\/a>, even as fellow CBS drama \u201cMarshals\u201d entered the fray this winter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt certainly feels good when so many people are watching and enjoying it, and the stories that I hear about people watching it with their kids and with their parents and their grandparents,\u201d Hartley shared. \u201cYoung people enjoy it, older people enjoy it, men, women \u2014we\u2019re very lucky, and we take that into consideration when coming up with these stories and backstory and history and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTracker\u201d Seasons 1-3 are now streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n
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