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Spacey used his address at the annual <strong>MacTaggart Lecture<\/strong> during the <strong>Edinburgh Festival<\/strong> as a rallying call to develop new and emerging storytelling talent, saying that not enough is being doing to support new talent across the industry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0ukYf_xvgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Referring to innovative figures such as Steve Jobs and Henry Ford, Spacey urged Television personnel \u2018to be that innovative. In some ways we need to be better than the audience. 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