You try to be a good egg ...

Paul Brownfield has been filing online dispatches from the Television Critics Assn. meetings in Beverly Hills. Here’s the latest from Monday:

NBC, Day 2. You will like something today. You will enter this ballroom with an open mind. You will not be yet another messenger of network TV’s current mediocrity and future doom. Instead you will be ever so delighted by a new idea for scripted television. Hey, here it is, a show set in a fertility clinic, called “Inconceivable” (tee-hee!), with comedic and dramatic elements. NBC isn’t exactly stringing up lights around it, putting it on Friday nights at 10, but

“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 threaten 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.

For Brownfield’s notebook, go to calendarlive.com/tca.