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Former "Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford will be returning to a TV screen near you in ABC's new pilot drama "Boom." The 29-year-old tweeted out the happy announcement signifying an end to his television hiatus.

"Coming back on your tv screens! Who's excited?!," tweeted Crawford. "No not as Nate Archibald...Different character and different show! Heads up," he posted Wednesday.

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According to Deadline, the network's pilot show will take place around the biggest oil discovery in American history that created an economic boom in North Dakota which far exceeded the economic prosperity experienced from the 1849 California Gold Rush. The show will chronicle a couple, Billy (Crawford) and Kelly, to the Bakken oil fields in search for fortune and a better life.

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