His highest-profile television roles have included hospital radio DJ Eddie McKenna in BBC Scotland's "Takin' Over The Asylum" the leading character, DCI Red Metcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series "Messiah" (BBC One, 2001–05); DI Chappell in ITV police drama "The Vice" (1999–2003); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in "Promoted to Glory" (ITV, 2003); as Adolf Hitler in "Uncle Adolf" (ITV, 2005) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's "The Girl in the Café" (BBC One, 2005). 2006 saw him take over the title character in detective series "Rebus", a television adaptation of the Ian Rankin novels which had previously starred John Hannah. In 2008 Stott was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA for his performance as comedian Tony Hancock in BBC Four's "Hancock and Joan". He played the father of cookery writer Nigel Slater in the BBC One adaptation of Slater's autobiographical novel "Toast", opposite Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore. In 2015, Stott played Arthur Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC TV adaptation of J. B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls".