Justin Hartley’s Hit CBS Series ‘Tracker’ Loses 2 Main Cast Members Ahead of Season 3

Justin Hartley‘s show Tracker is losing two main cast members amid a season 3 reconfiguration.

Eric Graise, who played Bobby in the first two seasons, and Abby McEnany a.k.a Velma have both departed the hit CBS show, according to TVLine. This leaves only Hartley, 48, and Fiona Rene from the main cast as the series prepares to kick off production on season 3.

The shakeup comes after Tracker already lost Robin Weigert following the season 1 finale. Weigert’s character, Teddi, was written off in the season 2 premiere by having her wife, Velma, reveal that they needed some distance. Velma then started working with Reenie (Rene), and Teddi wasn’t discussed despite her prominent presence on the show’s first season.

Viewers previously had concerns that there could be more departures after executive producer Elwood Reid exclusively told Us Weekly about possible onscreen changes.

“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,” he explained to Us in May. “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 want Tracker 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.”

Tracker, which premiered in February 2024, largely focuses on fictional survivalist Colter Shaw (Hartley) as he travels the country to help solve various missing persons cases. Since every episode shows Colter getting help from his team — handler Teddi, hacker Bobby and attorney Reenie — it came as a surprise when season 2 featured several episodes without Graise, 35.

Bobby’s cousin Randy (Chris Lee) was brought in to help Colter before Bobby returned, which caused backlash from viewers who grew used to seeing Graise on their screen.

“It’s one of those things where actor availability is always an issue. There have been shows where people don’t even notice [if a character is missing],” Reid added during his interview with Us. “You don’t [always] see Reenie. He talks to Velma for two seconds. He may talk to Bobby for one phone call. The show works because you are over Justin [Hartley]’s shoulder.”

At the time, Reid praised the show’s structure for allowing there to not be any “rules.”

“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,” he 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.”

Tracker is currently streaming on Paramount+.