‘MasterChef Junior’ Renewed For Season 4 and Fox Adds Pastry Chef Christina Tosi Joins As New Judge

"MasterChef Junior" will continue burning for another season.

FOX Network announced Tuesday that the reality cooking competition series has been renewed for a fourth season just one week into its third season, which premiered on Jan. 6.

In addition to the new season, the network revealed that Pastry Chef Christina Tosi and the owner of New York City's Milk Bar is set to join Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot on the judging panel of "MasterChef" and "MasterChef Junior."

The Wrap reported that Tosi was the 2012 recipient of the James Beard Rising Star Chef Award and a finalist for the 2014 James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef Award. Tosi will be replacing departing judge Joe Bastianich.

"MasterChef has been one of my favorite shows since it began, and like so many others, I fell in love with MasterChef Junior," Tosi said in a press release, via Entertainment Weekly. "I'm incredibly humbled by the opportunity and excited to pay forward all that I owe to learning what you're made of in the home kitchen, and putting your neck on the line to show what you've got to the rest of the world!"

Ramsay added, "Christina is one of the most exciting, dynamic and inspirational people in food today, whose brilliant ideas and incredible work ethic have resulted in a meteoric rise in the culinary world. I have tremendous respect for her opinions, and she'll be an incredible judge and phenomenal mentor to the best home cooks in America."

The show continues to perform well on the network, remaining television's No. 1-rated cooking show among adults ages 18-49 and maintaining about 5.3 million viewers.

The sixth season of "MasterChef" is currently in production and is set to air this summer. Production for the fourth season of "MasterChef Junior" will reportedly begin filming this spring.

The current season of "MasterChef Junior" airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

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