Pit a handful of repeats against an original lineup and what do you get? Easy wins for CBS. The network - faced with very little competition - slid into first place in both the viewers and the demos last night.

8pm

• Survivor: Samoa (12.4 million, 3.9/12 in 18-49) had the best demos of the evening.
• A Very Gilly Christmas (3.1/9) had 7.8 million enjoying SNL‘s past.
• Bones* (1.8/6) turned in 6.9 million.
• Grey’s Anatomy* (0.9/3) checked in 3.9 million.
• The Vampire Diaries* (1.8 million, 0.8/3) was off by 100,000.

9pm

• CSI (15.5 million, 3.5/10 in 18-49) lost 1.6 million.
• A second helping of Grey’s Anatomy* (4.1 million, 1.2/3) did slightly better than the first.
• Fringe* (1.2/3) scored 3.9 million.
• An additional episode The Vampire Diaries* (1.9 million, 0.8/2) did about the same.

10pm

• The Mentalist (15.7 million, 3.5/10 in 18-49) was the most-watched show of the night.
• The Jay Leno Show (5.2 million, 1.7/5) gave up 600,000.
• Private Practice* (1.0/3) registered 3.1 million.

*denotes repeat

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