Jonathan Cake and Joelle Carter in "Inconceivable."    NBC Universal

"Women can now bank their eggs," says co-creator Oliver Goldstick. "That was not possible when we sold this show to NBC." Hmm, food for thought. But who's in it? Well, how about Angie Harmon and Ming-Na and, for the ladies out there, Jonathan Cake as a Don Juan fertility doctor? He has a British accent.

OK, you're saying, but is it really about a fertility clinic and all the complexities therein?

Yes, and yes. In the pilot alone, a white couple threatens legal action against the clinic when their surrogate gives birth to an African-American child, while another surrogate is being stalked by the paranoid half of a gay couple.

Goldstick and co-creator Marco Pennette have been through the surrogate process in their own lives, bringing to "Inconceivable" the weight of personal experience. Pennette recalls making a call to his surrogate after "we read an article (saying) that air embolisms during sex can cause miscarriages.

"That was a hard call to make," he says.