Promotional photos from the next two episodes of Gossip Girl have been released, and promise plenty of drama. Particularly between Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) and his uncle Jack (Desmond Harrington of Dexter fame), who arrives on the Upper East Side to help him pick up the pieces after Bart's untimely death - but does he have his own agenda?

That's just one of many unanswered Gossip Girl questions we'll have to wait to answer. But it's fun to speculate and look at the pictures in advance.

Follow these links for galleries from:

• "In the Realm of the Basses" (January 5)
• "Gone with the Will" (January 12)

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