Beginnings Hoberman began his showbiz career with a mailroom job at the
American Broadcasting Company, and later joined
Norman Lear's
Tandem Productions. In 1985, he joined the
Walt Disney Studios as a film executive, and before that, he served as a talent agent at the
International Creative Management. He was president of the Motion Picture Group at Disney, and was responsible for production of all feature films under
Walt Disney,
Touchstone, and
Hollywood Pictures. In 2002, along with business partner
Todd Lieberman (a former Mandeville employee), Hoberman re-formed Mandeville Films and Television at Disney, after spending three years at
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Monk Hoberman, along with
Andy Breckman, was the co-creator of the
American comedy-drama detective
mystery television series,
Monk, and the protagonist of the series,
Adrian Monk. Monk was originally envisioned as a "more goofy and physical"
Inspector Clouseau type of character. However, Hoberman came up with the idea of a detective with
obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was inspired by his own bout with self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder; in a
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview, he stated: "Like Monk, I couldn't walk on cracks and had to touch poles. I have no idea why – but if I didn't do these things, something terrible would happen." ==Personal life==