On today's Daytime Confidential podcast Luke Kerr, Jamey Giddens, Jillian Bowe, Regan Cellura and Melodie Aikels look back at the year in soaps and reveal their picks for Soap's Best and Worst of 2011. The three-hour episode was so big it had to be broken up into two episodes. In Best and Worst of 2011 Part I the DC gang announce their choices for Most Improved Actor or Actress, Most Improved Male or Female Character, Biggest Waste of Male and Female Talent, Most in Need of a Makeover, Most in Need of a Story, Best Stunt Casting, Dreams Really Do Come True, Be Carful What You Wish For, Best and Worst Couple, Triangle and Quad, Most Tortured Couple and Best and Worst Storyline and Scenes.

Be sure to tune in for Soap's Best and Worst of 2011 Part II, where the DC crew reveal their picks for Guy Whose Chestnuts we Want Roasted Over an Open Fire, Biggest Ho Ho Ho, Glittery Hoo Hoo of the Year, MP of the Year, Most in Need of a Love Interest, Most in Need of a Roll in the Hay, Dumbest and Smartest Character, Soap Opera Scenery Chewer of the Year, Hall of Shame, The Charity Ramer Award for Babies Who Don't Know Where They Are, The Megan McTavish Award for Special Achievement in Serial Drama Dismantling and Best and Worst Daytime Drama.