Exclusive: Grey's Recruits Two Carnivale Grads!

Amy Madigan by Jim Spellman/WireImage.com and Clea DuVall by Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
Amy Madigan has booked a multi-episode arc on
Grey's Anatomy, sources confirm to me exclusively. The Oscar-nominated thesp - and former co-star of HBO's gone-but-not-forgotten
Carnivale - is playing a psychiatrist who, and I'm just speculating here, may be the one to help Meredith get over her commitment issues, thus paving the way for the
Mer/Der reunion Shonda Rhimes has been hyping.
Meanwhile, Madigan's former
Carnivale co-star,
Clea DuVall, will fill the "everywoman housewife" role I teased in last week's
Ask Ausiello. Her
George Clooney-esque husband will be played by
Jason O'Mara (
Men in Trees,
In Justice). I'm guessing one of them will be a patient. Both are on board for two episodes.
Oh,
Carnivale, how I miss thee.