It’s a good week for “Hawaii Five-O.” Not only did the CBS series win its timeslot Monday night — snaring 11 million viewers at 10 p.m. — but it’s earned a plum programming slot following the AFC Championship Game, which airs Jan. 23.

CBS will air an original “Five-O” episode following the game, which begins at 6:30 p.m. and will draw strong ratings if it follows the NFL-on-TV trend this season (some record numbers).

“Five-O” is averaging 13.2 million viewers season-to-date; its Monday-night CBS stablemates also performed well this week, with both “How I Met Your Mother” and “Rules of Engagement” pulling in their biggest audiences (10.4 million and 9.9 million, respectively) since last March.

“Two and a Half Men,” meanwhile, averaged 15.3 million viewers — its best showing since last May.

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I’ve never met former “Laverne & Shirley” star Cindy Williams — but she’s a dog lover, so I like her already.

Williams, who’s appearing in a stage revival of “Sylvia” in Overland Park, Kansas — the play revolves around a stray dog who comes between a husband and wife — tells People magazine in this week’s issue that she’s made it her mission, after every performance, to bring a local stray on stage and (hopefully) have it adopted by an audience member. After curtain calls, she introduces a dog from the Animal Haven shelter.

“I’ve always loved animals,” Williams tells People. She currently owns three dogs and a cat — all rescued from shelters.

Rock on.

Last, but not least:

* Chris Glorioso has joined Ch. 4 as a general assignment reporter after five years at Ch. 11 . . . Syfy’s “Twilight Zone” New Year’s marathon averaged 1 million viewers — up 8 percent over last year . . . ABC Family’s “Pretty Little Liars” averaged 4.2 million viewers in its return on Monday and was the network’s second-best telecast ever in women 18-34 (1.2 million) and females 12-34 (2.5 million) . . . Emmy-award-winning film editor Jack Milton has died in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 71 and had worked on TV movies including “Gable and Lombard.”