Michael Schneider of TV Guide broke the news Wednesday that Newton native B.J. Novak will no longer be a regular on “The Office.” We assume that’s because Novak is helping another Boston-
area funny person and former “Office” star, Mindy Kaling , with her new Fox sitcom, “The Mindy Project.” Newton will still have a presence on “The Office,” of course, thanks to John Krasinski , who still stars as Jim Halpert on the NBC series. . . . Speaking of Krasinski, the actor told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that “Promised Land,” the movie he’s making there with Matt Damon, is not an anti-fracking movie despite what many news outlets have written about the project. It’s actually a movie inspired by his dad, Boston physician Ronald Krasinski , and how he described his upbringing “and how everything was incredibly honorable and loyal and incredibly rather simple in the best way — going to work, having family, having friends, and taking care of what you needed to take care of,” Krasinski told the Post-Gazette’s Barbara Vancheri . Krasinski gets a writing credit on the movie, as do Damon and author Dave Eggers.