‘Modern Family’ is most viewed on DVR

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ABC’s “Modern Family” may not be the top-rated comedy on television, but it’s the one most viewers catch up with on their digital video recorders.

Through the first two weeks of the season, the Nielsen Co. said an average of 4.5 million viewers watched a recording of “Modern Family” after it first appeared on the air. That lifted the show’s viewership from nearly 14 million people who watched it live to 18.5 million.

It was the prime-time program that got the biggest lift when Nielsen’s measurement of who watches on DVR within seven days is added in. Networks are increasingly watching this new ratings measurement as DVR penetration increases.

—associated press

Schwarzenegger is on acting duty

Muscleman-turned-movie star-turned-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in front of the cameras.

He started work in New Mexico this week on “The Last Stand,” playing a small-town border sheriff.

Directed by Kim Jee-Woon, the film is described as a modern-day western about convicts making their way to the Mexico border after escaping from a Las Vegas prison.

—associated press

Festival circuit hits to play AFI

Southland movie lovers who weren’t able to shell out the big bucks to fly to the Cannes or Toronto film festivals will get the chance to see some of the season’s most buzzed-about movies at the AFI Fest next month.

A slew of films popular on this year’s festival circuit will screen at the event, to be held Nov. 3-10 in Hollywood. Among them are “The Artist,” the silent black-and-white film that became a sensation at Cannes, and “Shame,” the drama starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict that was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Other red-carpet galas include Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” Luc Besson’s “The Lady” and the Marilyn Monroe drama “My Week With Marilyn.”

Pedro Almodóvar, who is the festival’s guest artistic director this year, will also screen his 1987 film “Law of Desire” starring Antonio Banderas.

—Amy Kaufman

Lohan could be headed to jail

Los Angeles city prosecutors will ask a judge to send Lindsay Lohan back to jail after she allegedly violated the terms of her probation.

Lohan was kicked out of a program at the Downtown Women’s Center, where she was instructed by a judge to do community service for a necklace theft conviction.

L.A. County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner on Wednesday will review Lohan’s probation progress as part of a sentence stemming from probation in a 2007 drunk-driving conviction and a May misdemeanor theft conviction. The judge could be satisfied with Lohan’s progress or set a hearing to decide whether her behavior amounts to a violation of her probation and requires that she be jailed.

Law enforcement officials said the actress rarely appeared at a women’s shelter for 350 hours of required service and never showed up at the coroner’s office, where she was supposed to do another 120 hours of community service. She is now seeking to complete the women’s shelter hours at the American Red Cross, according to authorities.

“She was terminated from the women’s center program for failing to show up. This was one of the terms of her probation. So we will seek jail time for her,” said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney.

—Richard Winton

Huntington art chief to retire

John Murdoch, who oversees the art galleries at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, has announced that he will retire in June.

Murdoch, 66, arrived at the Huntington in 2002, in time for a period of collection-building and expansion. Early on, he oversaw the completion of architect Fred Fisher’s new Erburu Building, designed to create more space for the display of American art. Then he led a three-year, $20-million renovation and re-installation of the Huntington mansion, the Italianate villa that houses British paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds as well as European decorative arts and furniture.

Murdoch joined the Huntington after nine years as the gallery director at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

—Jori Finkel

A ‘War Horse’ of an exhibition

Joey the horse, Jimson the mule and other forgotten four-legged heroes are to be remembered in the first exhibition to focus on war horses in British military history, the National Army Museum in London said Tuesday.

The exhibition, “War Horse: Fact and Fiction,” explores the real-life stories

of the horses and mules

that bore officers into battle in the Charge of the Light Brigade or trudged through fields of mud in World War I to transport ammunition.

The exhibition is the

latest offshoot inspired by Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel “War Horse,” which formed the basis for both an acclaimed play with life-sized puppets and a film directed by Steven Spielberg, due to be released at Christmas.

—reuters