Director Clark Johnson, known to Baltimoreans as Meldrick Lewis on 'Homicide,' sets up a scene. PHOTO BY HPS/WILL KIRK

No big secret — crew and cast members of The Service, a pilot for ABC-TV, used Homewood's Shriver Hall to film both exterior and interior scenes on Thursday night. The show, from the creators of ABC's hit Alias, centers on a female Secret Service agent, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, late of WB's Tarzan. Clark Johnson is directing the pilot episode, which stars Johnson's former Homicide: Life on the Streets cast mate, Kyle Secor, who plays a senator running for the presidency.

Despite production delays and a spot of rain, the crew managed to film both scenes. The inside of Shriver was used to depict a political rally for the senator at an America Legion Hall. Shriver played itself in the exterior shot, which had Callies' character and her superior, played by House of Sand and Fog's Oscar-nominated Shohreh Aghdashloo, having a heart-to-heart during a campaign stop at Johns Hopkins.

The show has been shooting in and around Baltimore this month. There is no schedule for an airdate.
— Greg Rienzi

In the pilot shot Thursday night, Shriver Hall was the site of a campaign stop for a senator and would-be president played by Kyle Secor. PHOTO BY HPS/WILL KIRK

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