Despite lower numbers for Grey’s and Ugly Betty, Life on Mars’ premiere saw nice numbers yesterday. Meanwhile, CBS - with the help of CSI - scored wins with both the viewers and demos last night.

8pm

• Survivor: Gabon (13.3 million, 4.3/12 in 18-49) had a 500,000 bump.
• Ugly Betty (8.5 million, 2.6/7) was down slightly.
• My Name is Earl (7.1 million, 2.7/8) was up a notch; Kath & Kim‘s debut (3.2/9) pulled in 7.5 million.
• Approximately 6.5 million watched the Phillies beat the Dodgers during Game 1 of the NLCS (2.1/5) on FOX.
• Smallville (4.1 million, 1.6/4) did about the same.

9pm

• About 23 million saw the end of Warrick on CSI (7.0/17 in 18-49).
• Grey’s Anatomy (14.5 million, 5.5/13 in 18-49) gave up 3.8 million.
• The Saturday Night Live special (5.0/12) rounded up 10.6 million.
• The Office (9 million, 4.6/11) was short 200,000.
• Supernatural (3.1 million, 1.4/3) was off by a 1/2 million.

10pm

• Life on Mars (11.601 million, 3.8/10 in 18-49) had the best debut of any drama this fall.
• Eleventh Hour (11.588 million, 3.3/9) did less than 1/2 as well as its lead-in.
• ER (9.3 million, 3.9/10) got help from the SNL special.

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Thursday’s ratings here.)