The Super Bowl, the Oscars, the Grammys and a mom who bottles deer urine: Meet TV's latest sweeps class.

From Thursday through Feb. 28, mega-sized events, the deer-urine lady and everybody from Jamie Farr to Nelly Furtado will vie for your attentions.

In other words, there should be just enough activity to distract you from the grim task of seeing off The O.C.

Here's a look at the month's highlights.

SPECIALS

• Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials 2007 (Saturday, CBS): Why wait for the game? Why hunt around on YouTube? Let CBS treat you to 15 classic Super Bowl spots, to be aired in between a variety of non-Super Bowl spots. 
• Super Bowl XLI (Sunday, CBS): Billy Joel sings the National Anthem. Prince keeps his clothes on at halftime. Kevin Federline stars in a third-quarter insurance-company commercial. And for sports fans, the Chicago Bears play the Indianapolis Colts.
• In Style Celebrity Weddings (Monday, ABC): Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes give the world a special peek at their underreported nuptials.
• Winnie the Pooh, A Valentine for You (Feb. 10, ABC): In this 1999 animated special, Pooh grows jealous of Christopher Robin's love for another. Unlike in Fatal Attraction, Rabbit does not get boiled. 
• 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Feb. 11, CBS): Mary J. Blige is the top nominee. Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and the reunited Police are among the scheduled performers. Britney Spears is off the grid.
• The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special (Feb. 22, ABC): Julia Roberts chats up George Clooney. Jamie Foxx sits down with Sidney Poitier. Nicole Kidman makes Russell Crowe look friendly. Will there be tears? Possibly, in that a Barbara Walters Oscar special is also in the works. That show's airdate is still unannounced, but it traditionally airs on Oscar night, which brings us to... 
• 79th Annual Academy Awards (Feb. 25, ABC): Ellen DeGeneres is the host. Dreamgirls is the unhappiest top nominee. Helen Mirren is the prohibitive favorite to pretend to be completely surprised by a win. 
• To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports (Feb. 27, ABC): The former World News anchor returns to work after sustaining serious injuries in a 2006 warfront bombing.

VERY-SPECIAL EPISODES

• Ugly Betty (Thursday, ABC): Katharine McPhee appears as herself. Tim Gunn appears as a fashion reporter who is not himself. "A surprising and unexpected twist" happens. 
• ER (Thursday, NBC): Best Actor nominee Forest Whitaker stays busy awaiting Oscar night with another hour's worth of work antagonizing Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic).  
• Criminal Minds (Sunday, CBS): Team Mandy Patinkin gets the key, post-Super Bowl time slot for an episode, coincidentally, about a Super Bowl party gone deadly. Guest star James van der Beek helps stir the dip.
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (Sunday, CBS): The night-owl talker gets Super Bowl exposure with a game-night broadcast from Miami.
• Heroes (Monday, NBC): George Takei returns as Hiro's father; the cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) visits a trailer park.  
• 24 (Monday, Fox): As if Jack's day wasn't going badly enough—his estranged dad (James Cromwell) and Chad Lowe enter the fray.
• The Unit (Tuesday, Fox): C.P.O. Sharkey vet Don Rickles returns to the military fold.
• CSI: NY (Wednesday, CBS): In the name of corporate synergy, Grammy nominee Nelly Furtado appears on the Grammy network as a promiscuous, sorry, prolific shoplifter.
• The War at Home (Feb. 8, Fox): Guest star Jamie Farr proves there's life after M*A*S*H* and After MASH.
• The Office (Feb. 8, NBC) Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) prepares to walk down the aisle with Bob Vance—of Vance Refrigeration, of course.
• Grey's Anatomy (Feb. 9, ABC): A three-episode arc designed to "challenge the interns of Seattle Grace—and Grey's fans as well" commences. Consider yourselves warned. 
• Ghost Whisperer (Feb. 9, CBS): In the further name of corporate synergy, Grammy hopeful Mary J. Blige graces the Grammy network as a hip-hop soul queen, sorry, high-school cheerleading coach.
• Brothers & Sisters (Feb. 11, ABC): Margot Kidder guests as Sally Field's "wayward friend."
• American Idol (Feb. 13, Fox): The early audition rounds give way to the Hollywood round—finally. Other dates of note: Feb 14, the top 24 semifinalists are announced; Feb. 20, the 12 men semifinalists perform; Feb. 21, the 12 women semifinalists perform; and Feb. 22, Ryan Seacrest breaks in the newbies to the tortuous ritual that is the results show. 
• Bones (Feb. 14, Fox): A real-live Ghostbuster guest stars! And, yes, Ernie Hudson does, too, count.
• Medium (Feb. 14, NBC): "After awaking from a dream, Allison [Patricia Arquette] is convinced she's a completely different person named Sandra."
• Smallville (Feb. 15, CW): Lex Luthor rules. Or, at least Michael Rosenbaum does as the director of this night's installment.
• Law & Order (Feb. 16, NBC): Remember the case of Adrienne Shelly, the actress and mother who was found dead in her New York City apartment? And whose death was initially pegged a suicide before investigators determined it was a murder? The writers of Law & Order absolutely do not. Their stories are totally, totally made up. Including this one: "An actress and mother is found dead in her New York City apartment—is it suicide or murder?"
• America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (Feb. 17, Fox): Why should Dateline NBC have all the fun? Host John Walsh offers up a "sexual predator special edition."
• The Apprentice (Feb. 18, NBC): Two of Donald Trump's charges go all Real World in the romance department.
• What About Brian (Feb. 19, ABC): Tiffani Thiessen joins the cast as Rick Gomez's new TV boss.
• Supernatural (Feb. 22, CW): Battlestar Galactica star and Playboy pinup Tricia Helfer works her magic on the brothers Winchester.
• Wife Swap (Feb. 26, ABC): A salon proprietor trades places with "a hardworking mom who bottles and sells deer urine with her husband."

PREMIERES/RETURNS

• Rules of Engagement (Monday, CBS): The New Adventures of Old Christine gets benched for the month to make way for this look at modern love starring old romantic David Spade.  
• Lost (Wednesday, ABC): Its winter break is over. Its American Idol run-ins are over, as it's now safely tucked away at 10 p.m. on Wednesdays. It's time to get back to business.
• Survivor: Fiji (Feb. 8, CBS): Its segregation experiment over, the reality series' 14th season gets back to basics—heaping punitive measures on the tribe that fails the immunity challenge.
• Real Time with Bill Maher (Feb. 16, HBO): The comedian begins his fifth season. The White House promises to provide ample material.
• The Amazing Race: All-Stars (Feb. 18, CBS): "Boston Rob" and Amber are at it again as the Emmy-winning series' 11th season pits 11 past teams against each other.  
• Jericho (Feb. 21, CBS): The show's nuclear winter is over. 
• America's Next Top Model (Feb. 28, CW): Tyra Banks commences her eighth search for a young woman who isn't afraid of being photographed in a bathing suit in Australia.

FINALES

• Beauty and the Geek (Feb. 14, CW): The third season comes to a close with a hopefully non-euphemistic "big elimination."
• Reba (Feb. 18, CW): With the contractually obligated sixth season ended, the series itself ends with a pair of back-to-back episodes.
• The O.C. (Feb. 22, Fox): After four seasons, Ryan, Seth, Summer, et al., go the way of Marissa Cooper, hopefully without the nasty head wound.