There's a new reality TV display hitting the airwaves known as "The Bachelor Pad." This display is hosted by a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader named Melissa Rycroft. Shades of days gone by!

The bachelor pad has most likely usually been viewed as a myth as much as it has been a reality. For each and every Hugh Hefner there have most likely been one hundred Joe Schmoes. Some bachelor pads happen to be furnished using the latest modern furniture from Ikea and wall-to-wall shag carpeting. Other people happen to prefer homes furnished with Victorian era antiques including antique Persian rugs. Yet other people (and most likely one of the most typical aspect) are furnished with a mix of thrift store chic, hand-me-downs from family and boards and concrete blocks from the local lumberyard.

The TV display most likely will have the more modern appearance as that would fit the desire to keep points light and airy in look. The modern appearance, using the light and airy look, is most likely looked at as much more from the California style, whereas the heavy Victorian antique furniture and antique Persian rugs evoke much more of an East coast, formal drawing room, gothic look.

To numerous folks, nevertheless, the Victorian appearance, complete with vintage rugs, evokes an era of responsibility and maturity. It might occasionally appear stolid rather than sensible but it's that stolidity that suggests the stability and sense of purpose. It says to numerous people that "great things have happened here." This is why numerous banks in little towns have usually had this kind of appearance to present as their public face.

But one of the most typical kinds of Bachelor Pad truly reflects the reality that most bachelors are in their mid-twenties and just out of college. If the bachelor is lucky, most of his furniture is in one piece (depending on how numerous were the parties he had when he was in college). Pride of place may be a papasan chair or futon. There's most likely a TV, maybe a large screen hi-def to watch the NFL or NBA games. Bachelors from thirty or forty years ago may have had the top of the line stereo equipment although today's bachelor might lean much more to the video game set-up.

Nevertheless the Bachelor Pad TV display sets up, the risk is going to be the presentation. If points are presented in an unrealistic fashion, then the mockery will commence. But if they go with a lot of realism, then it will most likely not be interesting sufficiently to gain the required (and desired) ratings.

Modern furnishings, Victorian antiques, or college cast-offs, whatever path the producers select, the hope is that individuals watch. Will you be tuning in?